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Friday 10th February 2012
Gay penguin book provokes storm in Poland
31st July 2009© Simon & Schuster
Penguin fairy-tale not set to go down well in Poland
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First published in the US in 2005, the award winning ‘And Tango Makes Three’ tells the true-life story of two male penguins who fall in love in a zoo and raise a chick from a borrowed egg.
But conservative politicians in Poland have called for a ban on the book before its launch here in September.
"There is a difference between information and the promotion of certain issues in a very aggressive way.
"In this case, it is the promotion of homosexuality," MEP Tadeusz Cymanski from the right-wing Law and Justice (PiS) party told the daily Dziennik.
"My c ...
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