Gay Activists Demonstrate Against Polish President

BERLIN - Gay rights protesters gatecrashed a speech by Poland's president, Lech Kaczynski, in Berlin on Thursday, accusing him of scapegoating gays.
The protesters entered the auditorium at the city's Humboldt University holding placards and disrupting preliminary speakers who were addressing the audience at the time.
Kaczynski later spoke without interruption after one of the activists was permitted to address the Polish President from the podium. "He shares responsibility for violence against gays and lesbians," said Holger Wicht, editor of a Berlin gay publication. "This person is an inciter. He is stirring up Catholicism, which leads to exclusion."
Protesters stood in the back and continued to hold placards while Kaczynski spoke but did not interrupt him, at no point did the police intervene and there were no altercations with the Polish leader's entourage.
During his tenure as mayor of Warsaw, Kaczynski had refused parade permits for gay rights marches.
He was elected president in October and is visiting Berlin for talks with Chancellor Angela Merkel and President Horst Koehler.
from GCN Ireland