WARSAW, Poland, March 27 (UPI)

Poland’s ombudsman for children’s rights has prepared a list of professions for which homosexuals are deemed unsuitable, the Polish daily Dziennik reported. Ombudsman Eva Sovinyska prepared the list of professions, mainly those that have contact with children, and asked the government to impose a strict ban on homosexuals doing those jobs, the Serbian news agency Beta reported Tuesday. Homosexuals would not be acceptable to work as teachers, and sport and art instructors in schools and similar educational institutions. Sovinyska has support from the Roman Catholic nationalist League of Polish families, the report said. Joana Kluzsik Rostovska, deputy Polish minister for labor and social issues, said the list would violate the principle of equality and civil liberties, Dziennik said. In Brussels, European parliamentarians said last week they would investigate Poland’s reported government plan to ban debate on homosexuality in schools and universities. If teachers violated the rules, they could be fired, fined or jailed. EU parliamentarians voiced their concern of how such a bill could be compatible with European standards.

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