⁍ LGBT rights have been a flashpoint in Poland over the last two years.

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⁍ Politicians tied to the ruling nationalist Law and Justice (PiS) party argue against what they term ‘LGBT ideology’
The pope made his comments in a documentary ‘Francesco’ by Oscar-nominated director Evgeny Afineevsky.

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– “Homosexual people have a right to be in a family. They are children of God and have a right to a family. Nobody should be thrown out or be made miserable over it,” Pope Francis said in a documentary released yesterday. “What we have to create is a civil union law. That way they are legally covered,” he said, per Reuters, which notes that same-sex marriage and civil partnerships are banned in his native Poland. “We see these words as a breakthrough of sorts,” says an activist with the Campaign Against Homophobia. “The families formed by homosexual people are families … and people who have same-sex partnerships and more broadly LGBT people have the right to a family.”