In a controversial speech, Polish President Andrzej Duda called the promotion of LGBT rights a "destructive" ideology that is even worse than communism, the BBC reports.
Duda is seeking reelection at the end of this month, and polls suggest that he remains the favorite to win despite the country's economic woes in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.
"This is not why my parents' generation for 40 years struggled to expel communist ideology from schools, so that [the state would] brainwash and indoctrinate them..." he said. "They did not fight so that we would now accept that another ideology, even more destructive to man, would come along, an ideology which under the clichés of respect and tolerance hides deep intolerance."