"The European Parliament,

G.   whereas in its above-mentioned resolution of 15 June 2006, Parliament has already expressed its serious concern at the situation in Europe and notably in Poland, condemning the declarations of incitement to hatred and violence by the leaders of the Party of the League of Polish Families and, notably, by the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Education,

H.   whereas in March 2007 the Polish Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Education announced draft legislation punishing "homosexual propaganda" in schools, and illustrated its content, which is to provide for dismissing, fining or imprisoning school heads, teachers and pupils in the event of LGBT rights "activism" in schools,

I.   whereas the Polish Deputy Minister for Education confirmed that the administration is drafting such legislation and declared that "teachers who reveal their homosexuality will be fired from work"; whereas various members of the Polish Government reacted in different ways, leaving it unclear whether the legislation will in fact be proposed,

J.   whereas the Polish Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Education has expressed a desire to promote the adoption of similar laws at European level,

K.   whereas the proposed legislation received the support of the Polish Prime Minister, who declared that "promoting a homosexual lifestyle for young people in school as an alternative to normal life goes too far, and that these kinds of initiatives in schools have to be stopped", thus presenting a distorted interpretation of education and tolerance,

L.   whereas the Polish Ombudsman for Children has stated that she is preparing a list of jobs for which homosexuals are unfit,

M.   whereas in June 2006 the State Prosecutor's office ordered checks on the funding of LGBT organisations in connection with "criminal movements" and their presence in schools, in order to find traces of criminal activities, without any result,

N.   whereas on 8 June 2006 the Polish Government sacked the head of the Centre for Teacher Development and prohibited the distribution of an official Council of Europe anti-discrimination manual, and whereas the new head of the Centre stated on 9 October 2006 that "improper patterns must not be present in schools, because the objective of school is to explain the difference between good and evil, beauty and ugliness... school must explain that homosexual practices lead to drama, emptiness and degeneracy",

O.   whereas Secretary-General of the Council of Europe Terry Davis reacted to the events described by stating that "the Polish Government is free to decide whether it wishes to use Council of Europe material for human rights education, but if the teaching material is optional, the values and principles contained therein are certainly not" and expressed concern about "some policies promoting homophobia ... and homophobic behaviours being accepted by the government",

P.   whereas the Polish Government has also denied funding for projects sponsored by LGBT organisations in the framework of the European Youth Programme, and illustrated this decision in a letter to those organisations by stating that "the policy of the Ministry does not support actions that aim to propagate homosexual behaviour and such an attitude among young people ... [and] the role of the Ministry is not to support cooperation with homosexual organisations",

...10.  Urges the competent Polish authorities to refrain from proposing or adopting legislation as described by the Polish Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Education or from implementing intimidating measures against LGBT organisations;

11.  Calls on the competent Polish authorities publicly to condemn and take measures against declarations by public leaders inciting discrimination and hatred based on sexual orientation; believes that any other behaviour would constitute a violation of Article 6 of the TEU"

"The normalization of homosexuality is a value of Europe's elite. The 'values' of a majority of the European Parliament are one reason Europe has the lowest birthrates in the world. If it had a self-preservation instinct, the EP would be promoting the natural family, instead of castigating Poland for its defense of family values.

What remarkable arrogance. These Parliamentarians want to force the Poles to allow the sexual indoctrination of Polish children. They want to force Catholic Poland to embrace the worldview of the Amsterdam red light district."

In the 20th century, the Poles fought and beat the Nazis and communists, I doubt they'll have much difficulty standing up to the new totalitarians within the European Union."

Again and again, homosexual activists repeat a reassuring mantra: "We're just ordinary folks, not really different from everyone else."  Sympathetic politicians, entertainers, and journalists have so often amplified this message that it has become part of conventional wisdom for all too many Americans.  Indeed, only widespread acceptance of that message can account for the decision by some states and professional organizations (including the National Association of Social Workers) to accept homosexuals as foster and adoptive parents.  But from time to time hard realities puncture that conventional wisdom, so casting grave doubts on the new policies allowing homosexuals to serve as surrogate parents.  One of those hard truths recently surfaced in the pages of Psychological Reports, where researcher Paul Cameron published disquieting evidence that when they do become foster parents, homosexuals are far more likely than heterosexuals to sexually abuse the children placed in their care. 

In data reported for 1997-2002 by the child protective services (Department of Children & Family Services) for the state of Illinois, Cameron identified a total of 270 foster parents involved in "substantiated sexual abuse."  Of these 270 sexually abusive foster parents, more than one-third (34%) were involved in same-sex (i.e., homosexual) abuse.  Because available evidence indicates that homosexuals constitute no more than 3% of foster parents even in jurisdictions that "recruit homosexual foster parents aggressively," Cameron has good reason to emphasize "the disproportionality of the homosexual footprint."  And given that such disproportionality has also shown up in previous analyses of foster care based on survey and journalistic data, he seems fully justified in questioning the prudence of those now "abandoning the tradition of excluding homosexuals as foster parents."