Book contents
- Constitutional Intolerance
- Comparative Constitutional Law and Policy
- Constitutional Intolerance
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- 1 What Is Constitutional Intolerance?
- 2 Governing Religious Difference
- 3 Toleration, Time, and the Other
- 4 National Identity, Publicness, and Public Space
- 5 Dynamic Interpretation of Constitutional Concepts
- 6 Ad libitum Use of Constitutional Concepts
- 7 Constitutional Identity as a Political Instrument
- 8 Pseudo-constitutional Repertoires
- 9 Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
8 - Pseudo-constitutional Repertoires
The “LGBT-Free Zones” in Poland
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 January 2025
- Constitutional Intolerance
- Comparative Constitutional Law and Policy
- Constitutional Intolerance
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- 1 What Is Constitutional Intolerance?
- 2 Governing Religious Difference
- 3 Toleration, Time, and the Other
- 4 National Identity, Publicness, and Public Space
- 5 Dynamic Interpretation of Constitutional Concepts
- 6 Ad libitum Use of Constitutional Concepts
- 7 Constitutional Identity as a Political Instrument
- 8 Pseudo-constitutional Repertoires
- 9 Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
This chapter shows that constitutional intolerance is not only about religion or ethnoreligious identities. Much like ethnic and religious identities, LGBT identities have been subject to the regulation of their visibility in public space. This chapter discusses the anti-genderism of the Law and Justice party in relation to the hyphenation of Polish-Catholic identity and the historical role of the Catholic Church in promoting Polish independence, as well as the instrumentalisation thereof towards political polarisation in its domestic and European context. This chapter does not focus on the toolkit of illiberalism per se, but on the pseudo-constitutional anti-LGBT resolutions, declarations, and Family Charters targeting LGBT identities. A collaboration between the Law and Justice party and a think-tank called the Ordo Iuris Institute accounts for the first wave of this backlash, which invoked the constitution and legal language to allude to a semblance of constitutionalism.
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- Constitutional IntoleranceThe Fashioning of the Other in Europe's Constitutional Repertoires, pp. 127 - 142Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2025