Banning gay marches is something you do for political effect when you're trying to build a constituency on the right. They are learning from the U.S., from the Moral Majority. But I think it's dangerous and unhelpful if you say homosexuality is an illness that can be treated - then we're back in Britain in the 1950s. |
In this situation, you lose the most active elements because the less exciting people stay at home and drink. I wouldn't call it a 'brain drain' because that term makes me think of rocket scientists. But it is a hemorrhaging and I don't think it's going to do Poland any good in the long run. |
They are changing the climate of the debate. There is no reason why we shouldn't have this debate ... but it is making some people (in Western Europe) a little nervous. |
This is a very reactionary, very conservative group, and they are scaring people in Europe. |
You solve the unemployment problem, but you are losing the wrong people. |