WARSAW, Poland, May 18 (UPI) -- The mayor of Warsaw rejected pleas to ban a gay parade in the Polish capital saying it poses no threat to morality, Polish Radio reported Friday.
Warsaw's Mayor Hanna Gronkiewicz Walz, told Poland's national radio she has no grounds to ban the Equality Parade of gays and lesbians, scheduled for Saturday.
Walz said banning the gay parade would be in conflict with stands taken by the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, France.
She was responding to the Catholic Youth Movement of the ruling coalition's rightist League of Polish Families that asked the mayor to prevent organizers from staging the homosexual parade.
Early this month, the Strasbourg court ruled Poland violated human rights when it banned a traditional homosexuals' march in Warsaw in 2005. Polish President Lech Kaczynski was Warsaw's mayor in 2005 and he banned the gay parade.
