WARSAW, POLAND -- In a move that surely must
anger Poland's homophobic President Lech Kaczynski, Warsaw Mayor Hanna
Gronkiewicz Walz has approved a gay pride parade to take place in the capital.
Walz told Polish radio Friday that she had no grounds for rejecting to
give permit to the parade scheduled for Saturday. Organizers has said
they would move forward with the parade regardless of official approval.
Kaczynski
was Mayor of Warsaw before he became Poland's President, and from 2004
to 2006 he rejected all gay parade applications. Poland's government and
the ultra-nationalist Catholic Youth Movement has demanded the march to
be stopped because it "promotes immorality."
Walz said the parade would pose no threat to morals and pointed to a
ruling by the European Court of Human Rights that Kaczynski acted
illegally and discriminatory in banning the previous gay parades.
Kaczynski
was Mayor of Warsaw before he became Poland's President, and from 2004
to 2006 he rejected all gay parade applications. Poland's government and
the ultra-nationalist Catholic Youth Movement has demanded the march to
be stopped because it "promotes immorality." 
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