Lech Walesa under fire after anti-gay comments
Nobel Peace Prize laureate Lech Walesa has provoked outrage by suggesting homosexuals in parliament should sit behind a wall.
Walesa, the deeply religious former president of post-Communist Poland, was speaking during an interview on Saturday broadcast by news channel TVN 24 in which he was asked about homosexual rights.
Asked where homosexuals should sit in the parliamentary chamber, he said: “No minority should climb all over the majority. Homosexuals should even sit behind a wall, and not somewhere at the front.
“They must know they are a minority and adapt themselves to smaller things.”
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