U.S. Ambassador to Poland Georgette Mosbacher made some comments about Poland’s government policies which are controversial and arguably inappropriate for an American ambassador to make. These comments appeared in an interview published Tuesday by news outlet Wirtualna Polska
Though she said “I fully understand and respect the fact that Poland is a Catholic country – nobody wants to question” she attacked Poland’s government stance on issues related to human sexuality saying that “you must know that you are on the wrong side of history when it comes to LGBT” issues.
Mosbacher joined diplomats from 50 countries (most of which are Western European and have very liberal policies on human sexuality) in signing a letter criticizing Poland’s conservative and pro-family policies in the area of human sexuality. In the letter, which was initiated by Belgium, the diplomats criticized Poland for the delay of Warsaw’s Gay Pride Parade, and also excoriated localities for passing ordinances unfavorable to homosexual and transgender ideology. The letter also charged Poland with discriminating against members of its LGBT community in areas of healthcare, housing, and employment.
Recently, pro-LGBT activists in the country have engaged civically in a manner which is offensive to Polish values. Last year, some activists began trotting out images of Our Lady of Czestechowa modified with rainbows in the halo, a symbol of the LGBT movement internationally. In deeply Catholic Poland, this sort of image comes across immediately as an instigation: a blasphemous choice of imagery that anyone familiar with Poland would deem shockingly offensive to its populace.
This isn’t the only case of LGBT activists in Poland aggressively challenging the society’s values. Others are explicitly criminal, and have bordered on the violent. The far-left feminist group ‘Stop Bzdurom’ spraypainted a statue of Jesus in Warsaw pink, and draped it with the LGBT movement’s rainbow banners.
However, the open letter did not condemn such anti-religious violence and sacrilege committed by well-organized, far-left groups in Poland. Nor, in their letter’s condemnation of discrimination against LGBT in education, is the fact that the European Union is attempting to foist extremely anti-traditional sex education upon Poland and other religious countries, something which one might note to be an offense against national conscience.
It is worth noting that the Warsaw Pride Parade demands recognition of same-sex unions by the Polish government. Polish officials fear that the European Union is in a position to force the legalization of same-sex marriages in the country, which would be deeply unconstitutional. Poland’s Constitution defines marriage as “being a union of a man and a woman, as well as the family, motherhood and parenthood, shall be placed under the protection and care of the Republic of Poland.”
When considering the conditions in Poland, Ambassador Mosbach failed to qualify her statements whatsoever by recognizing that Poles feel like their values are under attack. She also didn’t touch the sacrilegious acts committed against the Blessed Mother and Christ by some activists. It is important that rather than making allowances and acceptable boundaries to Poland’s people and government, she signaled acceptance for no government act short of getting with the liberal program on LGBT issues. Her statements to Wirtualna Polska were entirely biased. They sounded more like things a member of the New York Times editorial board would say than ones an ambassador says.
It would be prudent for Ambassador Mosbach to reconsider her statements in light of recent events in Poland, and perhaps temper them with a substantial criticism of the European Union’s sexual education agenda. The Trump administration, in the interest of protecting positive American-Polish relations, should take the ambassador’s conduct more seriously.
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