Polish television censors BBC series because of homosexuality

  Polish television has censored an episode of the BBC series "Little Britain" in which a homosexual priest can be seen. The broadcaster cut out a scene lasting around a minute in which a priest kisses his boyfriend. A spokeswoman for TVP explained that they did not want to cause any controversy that would not do justice to the mission of a public television station. British viewers are more open-minded than Polish viewers and have a different sense of humor, the spokesperson continued according to SDA. The satirical series "Little Britain", in which numerous politically incorrect actors appear, has been running in the UK and other countries since 2003. In Poland, even the Teletubbies were recently suspected of homosexuality, but on Wednesday the conservative government's children's commissioner revised her opinion of the characters in the TV series. She referred to a sexologist who had apparently ruled out any harmful effects of the TV series on children's souls. The fact that the character Tinky Winky, who is considered to be male, always carries a handbag had caused irritation.