What's going on in Poland?

Gay rights in Poland has taken a step backwards....

Poland's likely new leader called homosexuality unnatural in an interview published Monday, and argued that the state should intervene if homosexuals try to "infect'' others with their behavior.

Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz, nominated by the Law and Justice party to lead the next government as prime minister, told the Polish edition of Newsweek magazine that propagating homosexuality constituted an infringement on the freedom of other people.

``It is unnatural. Family is natural and the state should safeguard the family,'' Marcinkiewicz said, echoing the views of other leaders of his conservative party.

``If such a person tries to infect others with their homosexuality, then the state has to intervene in such an abuse of freedom,'' he said. He did not elaborate.