In 2019, during a session of the Gromadka Municipal Council, a resolution on the Local Government Charter of Family Rights (SKPR) was adopted. We wrote about this in the article “Will the staging of nativity plays be banned in Gromadka municipality?”. Residents of Gromadka are fighting to repeal the SKPR resolution because they are concerned about the overly narrow interpretation of regulations concerning domestic violence set out in the resolution, as well as the possibility of the municipality being deprived of funding from European and Norwegian funds. They are also concerned about the municipality’s presence in the Atlas of Hate and the homophobic implications of the SKPR. Halina Gniewek from Wolna Gromadka will tell us about the residents’ actions and their fight with the councillors.

The Association Kultura Równości supports the effort to repeal the Charter in Gromadka. The case was referred to the Lower Silesian Voivode. In March this year, the association submitted an open letter to Jarosław Obremski, appealing for the SKPR resolution to be repealed. Piotr Buśko, spokesperson for Kultura Równości, will explain what response the association received,

Halina Gniewek from Wolna Gromadka:

The local government charter harms LGBT people, single people, widows and widowers.

I do not understand what ideology this refers to.

We tried to talk to the councillors, but there has been zero response.

According to this charter, Wolna Gromadka would not receive money, for example, for sexual education training.

Privately, many people agree with our arguments.

Piotr Buśko, spokesperson for Kultura Równości:

Ms Gniewek contacted us. We want to help Gromadka.

The charter is a convoluted document. It harms various people.

We wrote to the Voivode asking for the resolution to be repealed.

The Voivode replied that he does not intend to repeal the resolution of the Gromadka Municipal Council.

It is an peculiar situation to compel people to structure their lives in a particular way. People are diverse, and that is valuable.

The Constitution does not say that relationships other than those between a woman and a man cannot exist.

Marriage should be available to every person who wishes to enter into it.