Mirosław Orzechowski (; born 28 September 1957 in

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) is a Polish politician. He was elected to

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on 25 September 2005 getting 3474 votes in 9

district, as a candidate from the

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list. In

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's government he was a deputy minister of national education.

Biography

Orzechowski promotes strong anti-

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views, being (together with

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) a proponent of legislation banning any form of broadly defined ''promotion of homosexuality and other deviations'' in schools under threat of severe punishment - including imprisonment. He also actively pursues legislation banning any identified homosexual person from working with children in public education institutions of any level. He publicly confirmed his intentions of sacking any homosexual teacher during numerous interviews in Polish media on 15 March 2007, the strongest statement being aired by Radio Tok FM. Orzechowski holds the

theory of evolution Evolution is the change in the heritable characteristics of biological populations over successive generations. It occurs when evolutionary processes such as natural selection and genetic drift act on genetic variation, resulting in certai ...

to be false and wants to introduce teaching of

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in schools. This led 1,135 Polish scientists to demand his dismissal as deputy minister of education. On 25 March 2008, in an interview with TVN24, he publicly proposed the idea of prohibiting sex before the age of 18 and was supported by Ewa Sowińska in this matter. The idea was dropped from the debate after massive criticism. In June 2008 he wrote a letter to the President of Poland

Lech Kaczyński Lech Aleksander Kaczyński (; 18 June 194910 April 2010) was a Polish politician who served as the city mayor of Warsaw from 2002 until 2005, and as President of Poland from 2005 until his death in 2010 in an air crash. The aircraft carrying ...

, calling for revoking Polish citizenship of soccer players taking part in matches against the Poland national team. However, pursuant to Article 34 of the

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, Poles cannot lose their citizenship without their consent. When this was brought to his attention, he proposed to change the constitution so that playing in the national football team of any other country would be interpreted as an act of voluntarily abandoning Polish citizenship. The background of this proposal was Poland's defeat against Germany in the European Football Championship 2008.

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, whose family had left Poland when he was two and who never formally lost Polish citizenship, had scored both goals in this match. Orzechowski ran for the

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in the

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constituency

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on 22 June 2008 but failed to gain enough votes. On 6 March 2009 he had been charged with driving under the influence of alcohol. On 14 July 2009 he pleaded guilty to the charge and, subject to a plea agreement, he was ordered to pay a 5000 PLN fine, donate 500 PLN to a car accident relief charity and banned from driving any vehicles for three years.''Orzechowski bez prawa jazdy'', rp.pl z 14 lipca 2009
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Poradzimy sobie bez tolerancji
interview with Orzechowski by

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in October 2006
English translation
{{DEFAULTSORT:Orzechowski, Miroslaw 1957 births Living people Politicians from Łódź Members of the Polish Sejm 2005–2007 League of Polish Families politicians Christian creationists 21st-century Polish criminals Polish Roman Catholics Councillors in Łódź

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