Mirosław Orzechowski

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Mirosław Orzechowski born 1957

Function:	member of Sejm 2005-2007
Party:	LPR (League of Polish Families)

Mirosław Orzechowski (born September 28, 1957 in Łódź) is a Polish politician. He was elected to Sejm on September 25, 2005 getting 3474 votes in 9 Łódź district, as a candidate from the Liga Polskich Rodzin list. In Jarosław Kaczyński's government was a deputy minister of national education.

He is continuously exhibiting strong anti-homosexual views, being (together with Roman Giertych) 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 March 15, 2007, with the strongest statement being aired by Radio Tok FM.

On the 25th of March in an interview with TVN24 he publicly proposed the idea of prohibiting sex before the age of 18 and was consequentiality ridiculed by Ewa Sowińska who proposed to introduce a ban of having sex after a certain age.