“They have to know that they are a minority and adjust to smaller things, and not rise to the greatest heights,” he told the private broadcaster TVN during a discussion of gay rights. “A minority should not impose itself on the majority.”…

Some said they were not surprised by Walesa’s words. “I am surprised that only now we are noticing that Walesa is not in control of what he says and that he has views that are far from being politically correct,” said Adam Bielan, a conservative Polish member of the European parliament.