On 8 May the president of Warsaw Rafał Trzaskowski published order No. 822/2024, establishing in Warsaw offices "standards of equal treatment". 1 of these “standards” turned out to be a ban on the vulnerability of the Cross and spiritual symbolism: “No symbols related to a peculiar religion or religion are displayed in the buildings of the office and during events organised by the office.
The inhabitants of Warsaw and all Poland decided to protest massively against the ruling of the reconciler in the rule of freedom of religion and its expression, as expressed in Article 53 of the Polish Constitution, as well as grossly contrary to the case law of the ultimate Court and the European Court of Human Rights and the resolutions of the Sejm and the Senate.
Taking down crosses? The external entity has prepared the order
To this end, the Ordo Iuris Institute prepared and made available a model complaint against the decree of the President, which any resident could complete, sign and send to the address of the City Hall. Complaints besides included detailed questions submitted in the form of a request for access to public information, to which the Warsaw Capital City Office began to answer on 3 June – i.e. on the last day of the 14-day deadline for answer provided for by Article 13(1) of the Act on access to public information.
In response, it was found that the "standards" established by the order of Rafał Trzaskowski were prepared by an external entity – the foundation "Institute of Human Rights" (KRS: 0000787152). According to Order No. 1000/2023 of 12 June 2023, this foundation received PLN 129,910 from the city for this task.
However, the process of establishing the foundation as a contractor raises serious doubts. The competition for the improvement of “standards” was announced by the president of Warsaw by Order No 669/2023 of 5 April 2023. However, according to papers available in the National Court registry maintained by the Gdańsk-North territory Court in Gdańsk (VII economical Division of the KRS), little than a period earlier, on 8 March 2023, the foundation changed its name from ‘Open Ideas’ to ‘Institute of Human Rights Cities’ (idea ‘city of human rights’ is simply a task of the European Union Fundamental Rights Agency announced on 11 October 2021).
On the board of the Foundation there was an assistant left-wing Euro MP Spurek
She besides added, for statutory purposes, "supporting the process of creating and implementing interior policies of institutions and organisations" – so even before the competition was announced, she changed her parameters to perfectly meet the criteria for the organisation that prepares interior papers for the city. Moreover, even before announcing the results of the competition, Katarzyna Wilkołaska joined the board of directors of the foundation, who from 6 June 2019 to 14 October 2021 served in the Warsaw City Hall as the typical of Rafał Trzaskowski for women, and then from 2021 to 1923 she was assistant to the utmost left-wing Euro MP Sylwia Spurek, with whom she had previously worked in the office of the Ombudsman at the time erstwhile he was Adam Bodnar, the current Minister of Justice.
Marta Abramowicz and Anna Arrowkowska – LGBT+ activists surviving in a homosexual concubine, known for their many speeches calling for the demolition of the Catholic Church, besides sit on the foundation council since 2023. Marta Abramowicz served as president of the Association of run Against Homophobia as the successor to Robert Biedron – the current Euro MP of the Left. She is besides the author of a book published by the utmost left-wing “Political Criticism”, entitled “Ireland gets up off its knees”. It is simply a case survey of dechristianization of the Catholic state, which the author would like to conduct in Poland. Marta Abramowicz gave an interview in October 2023 entitled “Will Poland divorce the church? This will be decided by these elections", and in February 2024 the interview entitled "It was women who stopped the Church. Men created hell for women in the name of God." Anna Strałkowska, on the another hand, included the position of president in the LGBT Association "Tolerado", and presently sits on the board of the Foundation "The Rainbow Families". In November 2020, she gave statements with a punch line calling for the demolition of the Catholic Church in Poland: "Let the Church fall, let it fall."
The removal of crosses. “It was not spontaneous”
In conclusion, the order of the president of Warsaw Rafał Trzaskowski about the "standards" prohibiting the vulnerability of the Cross and spiritual symbolism was not spontaneous. The competition to choice the contractor of these "standards" was organised in 2023 and won by a foundation managed by a individual until late straight associated with Rafał Trzaskowski, in which the board sits 2 activists with unequivocally anti-clerical prejudices.
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– There are serious doubts that both the name of the foundation and its statutory objectives were changed just before the competition was announced, which gives the impression that the foundation's activists knew in advance that the competition would be organised. It is hard to recognise that the task performed after specified a competition deserves support with the amount of almost PLN 130 1000 from public money of Warsawers – emphasizes Adj. Nikodem Bernaciak, elder analyst of the Ordo Iuris investigation and Analysis Centre.
The ban on exposing the Cross raised clear opposition in Polish society. According to investigation conducted by investigation Partner, 45% of Poles (at 39% for) are opposed to this ban, and according to IBRiS – as many as 56% of Poles (at 35.2% for). Trzaskowski's ban met with strong criticism from not only the spokesperson of the Warsaw Archdiocese, the metropolitan of Warsaw cardinal. Kazimierz Nycz and the Łódź Cardinal. Grzegorz Rysia or the Council of the Polish Conference of the Polish Episcopal Conference on Social Affairs, as well as the Marshal of the Sejm Simon Hołownia or the Marshal of elder Marek Sawicki. The order of Trzaskowski is besides in clear contradiction with the key programming paper of his own political organization – the Krakow Declaration of 18 May 2003, in which the Civic Platform declared: "we will defend the rights of religion, household and conventional customs, due to the fact that these values are peculiarly needed by modern Europe".
Meanwhile, the Ordo Iuris Institute has already collected over 55,000 signatures under petition in defence of the right to place spiritual symbols on the walls of the offices, but besides on the desks of officials. As can be seen in the petition, “the order of the president of Warsaw is not only a blow to freedom of religion but besides imposes extremist ideology on employees of Warsaw offices. The paper states, among another things, that Warsaw officials should address transgender or non-binary persons utilizing their preferred pronouns and ask for pronouns before the conversation begins. The town hall besides encourages officials to usage feminists and impersonal forms."
– It is no wonder that the order is so radically anti-clerical that it reconciles the rights of believers and those attached to the Cross and spiritual symbolism, since thanks to the information obtained from the City Hall of Warsaw at the request of the sympathizers of the Ordo Iuris Institute it is now clear that it was prepared by an external entity – the foundation of highly left-wing activists “Nicodem Bernaciak adds.
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