Polish court acquits LGBTQ+ activists over rainbow icon poster
by Associated Press in Warsaw from World news | The Guardian on (#5ETWZ)
The three defendants had been accused of desecration and offending religious feelings
A Polish court has acquitted three activists who had been accused of desecration and offending religious feelings for producing and distributing images of a revered Roman Catholic icon altered to include the LGBTQ+ rainbow.
The posters, which they distributed in the city of Pock in 2019, used rainbows as halos in an image of the Virgin Mary and the baby Jesus. Their aim was to protest against what they considered the hostility of Poland's influential Catholic church toward LGBTQ+ people.
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