Polish women accused of “offending religious feeling” with stickers win latest court case

Closeup from the stickers and posters distributed by the three women
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Three Polish women who distributed posters of the Virgin Mary with a rainbow halo have emerged victorious after a court ruled in their favor.

The women – Elżbieta, Anna and Joanna – had previously been acquitted, but the prosecutors appealed. Today, the court rejected that appeal.

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The battle has been going on since 2019, after the women began putting up posters and stickers of the rainbow image to protest the treatment of LGBTQ people in the country.

“Nobody should be excluded from society,” said Elżbieta at the time. “Sexual orientation is not a sin or a crime and the Holy Mother would protect such people from the Church and from priests who think it is okay to condemn others.”

After their protest began, then-Polish interior minister Joachim Brudziński announced the arrest of one of the women, saying she was detained for…

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