Former President of Poland says gays should "adjust to smaller things"

Former President of Poland (and Nobel Peace Prize winner) Lech Walesa raised created a bit of a firestorm this week when he said that gays have no right to a prominent role in politics and that as a minority they need to "adjust to smaller things."

"They have to know that they are a minority and must adjust to smaller things. And not rise to the greatest heights, the greatest hours, the greatest provocations, spoiling things for the others and taking (what they want) from the majority," he told the private broadcaster TVN during a discussion of gay rights. "I don't agree to this and I will never agree to it."

"A minority should not impose itself on the majority," Walesa said.

Disappointing that Walesa would see things this way considering he was Poland's first democratic-era president.

(via ABC News)