{"id":7021,"date":"2011-09-18T19:30:13","date_gmt":"2011-09-18T23:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/news\/?p=7021"},"modified":"2011-09-18T19:52:07","modified_gmt":"2011-09-18T23:52:07","slug":"wikileaks-u-s-embassy-sneered-about-catholic-influences-in-poland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/2011\/09\/wikileaks-u-s-embassy-sneered-about-catholic-influences-in-poland","title":{"rendered":"Wikileaks: U.S. Embassy sneered about Catholic influences in Poland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Embassy officials in Warsaw, Poland, under the Obama administration complained that Catholic Church\u00a0doctrine is a major source of \u201chomophobia\u201d in the heavily Catholic country, according to diplomatic\u00a0cables released by Wikileaks.<\/p>\n<p>The messages from the American embassy in Poland&#8217;s capital, marked \u201csensitive but unclassified,\u201d were part of a dump of over 250,000 official government documents by the anti-secrecy website.<\/p>\n<p>An August 2009 \u00a0cable from the U.S. Embassy in Warsaw dated criticized the Catholic Church as being central in promoting \u201chomophobia\u201d in the former Soviet-controlled country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Catholic Church plays a significant role in the formation and propagation of anti-gay attitudes in Polish society, especially in rural areas,\u201d states the communiqu\u00e9 entitled \u201cGay rights in Poland: long road ahead.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Not explained is why\u00a0the American embassy is involved in a matter of such sensitivity within a friendly nation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/pray_for_the_persecuted_church\/?p=1079\" target=\"_blank\">CLICK HERE to read more<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Embassy officials in Warsaw, Poland, under the Obama administration complained that Catholic Church\u00a0doctrine is a major source of \u201chomophobia\u201d in the heavily Catholic country, according to diplomatic\u00a0cables released by Wikileaks. 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