Date: Thu, 17 Aug 1995 19:10:26 +0200 (MSZ) From: Bj|rn Skolander Subject: POLAND: 74% Disapprove of Same-Sex Sexual Relations OPINION POLL SHOWS WHAT POLES CONDEMN. According to a Public Opinion Research Center (OBOP) survey carried out in July, almost all Polish adults consider refusal to pay alimony as a social sin. Among respondents over 16, 95% condemned this while 93% opposed possession of drugs and the same number condemned desecration of religious symbols. Persecuting persons because they are of a different nationality was disapproved by 80%, sex for money by 79%, sexual relations with a person of the same sex by 74%, hiding income in a statement for the treasury by 64%, and refusal of military service by 59%. Other subjects widely disapproved in the poll included illegal demonstrations against the authorities (58%), illegal strikes (57%), abortion (49%), euthanasia (48%), not voting in elections (39%), divorce (39%), and premarital sex (35%). Older people, those with less education, rural inhabitants, and those who declare that they are believers practicing regularly, are less tolerant than others, Polish dailies reported on 11 and 14 August. -- Jakub Karpinski, OMRI, Inc.