Date: Tue, 11 Apr 1995 22:55:28 -0400
From: TinaH53374@aol.com

WARSAW, April 11 (Reuter) - A parliamentary commission drafting Poland's new
constitution voted on Tuesday to include a ban on discriminating against
people on grounds of sexual orientation. 

    PAP news agency reported that 16 deputies in the leftwing-dominated
commission voted in favour of the ban, six against and seven abstained. 

    President Lech Walesa's representative argued against the provision,
saying it could be used by sexual minorities to demand changes in family law
such as allowing marriages between people of the same sex or adoption by them
of children. 

    But supporters of the move said it would bring Poland, which currently
has no explicit constitutional protection for groups such as homosexuals,
into line with the European Parliament. 

    Successive Polish parliaments since the fall of communism in 1989 have
been working on a replacement for the existing Stalin-era constitution of
1952. 

    If the current commission succeeds in drafting a workable proposal, it
has to be approved by a joint sitting of both houses of parliament and then
submitted to a referendum. 

 REUTER


Transmitted: 95-04-11 13:37:17 EDT



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