 Speculation increased during the period that Tusk would release Gowin from the cabinet, though the prime minister ultimately decided to retain the minister, for the time being.Gowin's selection as Minister of Justice was controversial among left-leaning deputies within parliament.Openly gay Sejm deputy Robert Biedron from the Palikot's Movement, in an interview broadcast on Polskie Radio, controversially compared Gowin's conservative views in close alignment with the Islamist Taliban (a Sunni Islamic fundamentalist political movement and military organization in Afghanistan currently waging war), mocking his department as the "ministry of the Catholic religion."