They're trying to gag us! This is the last minute to react!

Ladies and gentlemen,

Last week, the legislature adopted the Priceless Act on "Speak of Hate" without amendment. If president Andrzej Duda signs the amended penal code, then for:

• quoting Bible passages;
• parental objection to the visit drag queen and ideology gender at school;
• opposition to questioning the fact about matrimony as a relation between a female and a man;
• bitty, but without any hatred of jokes and memes (sic!)

Each of us can go to prison for 3 years!

So this is the last minute to defend freedom of speech in Poland. According to the Constitution, The president of Poland has 21 days to decide whether to sign or veto the bill.

Of course, the lawyers of the Ordo Iuris Institute give and will supply legal assistance to anyone who falls victim to ideological censorship. Any journalist, teacher, priest or regular net user can number on our help. But the President's signing of the Censorial Act will make this aid difficult, triggering the process of systemic suppression of the freedom of public debate.

It is so essential to rapidly mobilise the public to show president Andrzej Duda broad public support for the decision to veto the bill. The voice of citizens on this issue should be clearly heard.

All of us can get active in this action! What can we do together?

First, we encourage you to sign a petition prepared by the Centre for Life and household "Stop dictatorship” in which we jointly call on the president to veto the bill.

We prepared the petition long before presenting the bill – as shortly as left-wing politicians began to tell the media how crucial this is to them. We predicted then that conservative Members would not be able to break the ideological course chosen by the governing team, and that sooner or later everything would depend on the decision of Andrzej Duda.

So far we have collected almost 25,000 signatures. Although this is much more than an disproportionately exposed petition in the media about the ban on confession, experience teaches us that there could be more erstwhile decently mobilised.

We have small time – a petition with signatures we want to file at the President's Chancellery on Friday, April 4. This means that we have only a fewer days to advance it and to spread it widely.

Therefore, we ask you very much to sign and spread our petitions!

However, given the exceptional importance of this matter, we cannot halt at the petition itself. Different actions are needed to defend the pillar of democratic society, which is freedom of speech.

Therefore, we besides want to encourage you to take the telephone and call or email the Chancellery of the president of Poland today – Let the officials tell the president that the social force on this substance is enormous!

The Ordo Iuris Institute and the Centre of Life and household jointly scope more than 1 million Poles. It's a large force! This was noticed by the left-wing media a short time ago erstwhile we organized the Call to the MP action, which has prevented the Sejm from adopting any of the pro-abortion drafts of the laws that hit the right to life of unborn children.

Our voice and this time may have a delicate meaning. Let us remind president Duda of his commitment to freedom of speech. Let's make a call to veto the bill.

You can contact the President's Chancellery by telephone:

+ 48 22 695 29 00

or

+ 48 22 695 22 38

Telephone contact is possible from 08.15 a.m. to 16.15 p.m.

When calling or writing e-mails to the Chancellery of the president of the Republic of Poland, it is worth citing arguments from our petitionsand ours AnalysisGovernment bill.

It is worth noting that the Act strikes freedom of speech, guaranteed straight not only in the Constitution of the Republic of Poland, but besides in many acts of global law (such as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the global Covenant on civilian and Political Rights, the European Convention on Human Rights or the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union), which have repeatedly stated that freedom of expression is the foundation of democratic society.

The European Court of Human Rights has besides explicitly confirmed that freedom of expression, which is 1 of the fundamental foundations of democratic society and 1 of the fundamental conditions of its advancement and development, applies not only to "information" or "idea", which is welcomed or considered indiscriminate or indifferent, but besides to those which offend, shock or concern.

It is besides worth mentioning concrete examples of the gag of Christians, censorship of the teachings of the Church and persecution of critics of sex ideology in countries that have already introduced akin laws.

In Ireland, an Irish bishop was accused of “saying hate”, which in his sermon referred to the spreading “secularized and ungodly culture”. In Finland, erstwhile Minister of the Interior Päivi Räsänen was brought to trial for quoting the letter of St Paul the Apostle to the Romans, who have been declared a “talk of hatred” towards homosexuals. In England, there have already been respective arrests of people praying in their minds under abortion clinics.

The victim of ideological censorship is parents opposed to indoctrination of children, tv stations emitting spots defending families, feminists who note that a man identifying himself as a lesbian cannot be a mother, publicists skeptical of LGBT demands, teachers refusing to teach about the existence of respective twelve sexes, people telling about their experience of abandoning homosexual practices, or professors referring to the definition of a household as a primary and natural cell of society based on a relation between a female and a man.

It is up to president Andrzej Duda present whether Poland will share the destiny of these countries. If the law adopted in Parliament enters into force, the fear of legal proceedings itself will make a “freezing effect” and origin self-censorship in many people who quit their opinions, fearing the reaction of law enforcement.

You can besides join the email to the President's Chancellery link to open letter, in which outstanding philosophers, journalists, journalists and academics call for president Duda to veto the bill. Among the signatories of the letter are Prof. Ryszard Legutko, Prof. Andrzej Nowak, Prof. Zdzisław Krasnodębski, Prof. Wojciech Roszkowski, Paweł Lisicki, Rafał Ziemkiewicz, Łukasz Warzecha, Bronisław Wildstein and Tomasz Wróblewski.

We are at the minute erstwhile the future of freedom of speech in Poland is decided.

Today our future and our children depend on our commitment to this matter. If we stay passive, shortly each of us will be able to go to jail for expressing his views.

Therefore, one more time we encourage you to take part in a broad action to convince president Andrzej Duda to stand on the side of freedom of expression and freedom of public debate.

At the same time, we encourage you to financially support our business. We are aware that not everyone has the chance to straight engage in social activity and the fight for Homeland. Therefore, our experts act on your behalf. To proceed to do so, we request regular financial support from our Donors, who are the only origin of our livelihood.

If the Censorship Act comes into force, we will be the last rescue for victims of ideological censorship, and any trial in defence of freedom of speech will cost respective or even tens of thousands of zlotys.

With respect

Marcin Perłowski

Director of the Life and household Centre

adw. Rafał Dorosinski,

Member of the Board of the Institute for Legal Culture Ordo Iuris