On World Pride Day, Hungarian President redoubles his attack on “rainbow countries”

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban defended the law which limits the dissemination of information and LGTBI content to minors and he claimed his right to legislate after criticism received last week from “rainbow countries”, as summed up by the united bloc against him at the last European Council.

The leaders’ summit on Thursday and Friday had Hungary’s new law among the issues highlighted on the agenda, viewed with suspicion by a majority of the 27 heads of state and government. The President of the European Commission, Ursula Von der Leyen, came to describe it as “shame”.

Orban, que cuestionó que pueda haber una “unidad de valores” dentro de la UE, compared in a text message publicado in Internet este debate con la crisis migratoria “invasión”, en su opinión, of 2015 y señaló que tanto entonces como ahora quedó claro What the EU cannot function as a bloc in political terms.

Thus, faced with “liberal hegemony”, the Hungarian president opposed the “pluralism of opinion” defended by governments like his, on the basis that it is only in this way that there can be having a “unit in the university” of the community block, Orban he was even invited to leave by leaders like the Dutchman Mark Rutte.

According to the Hungarian Prime Minister, the “liberals” believe that children should have access to information which “can educate them about heterosexuality, homosexuality, biological sex renunciation and sex reassignment operations”.

According to this premise, he added, “it is a human right of the child, the parents’ decision must not be exclusive and state institutions may even have priority”. Instead, Orban argues that “child sex education is the right of parents” and, without their consent, no one else can take sides, not even “rainbow activists” .

The Hungarian Prime Minister has recognized that a country has the right to move away from the “binary” concepts implied by “man-woman and mother-father” relations, but they cannot move it into “another dimension” to the point of trying to force another government to change your policies.

“Whether it’s better to live in a binary or a rainbow world and why is that a question the two sides are arguing over from their points of view.” It is their own truth, ”added Orban, who believes that one cannot speak of human rights when it comes to educating minors on issues of sexuality.

CRITICISM OF GERMANY

The ultra-conservative leader directly pointed the finger at Germany, which he accused of being at the head of the wave of criticism after the controversy generated by the lighting of football stadiums in the colors of the flag that symbolizes freedom LGTBI.

“Whether it’s smart to protest against the ban on lighting up with armbands or bending over the pitch while the Hungarian national anthem is playing in the Munich stadium, I’m not sure. What I am sure is that it is for the Germans to decide on the education of German children, ”he said.

“I am also sure that only Hungarians can decide on the education of Hungarian children, certainly not Germans, Dutch or Belgians,” he said.

(With EP information)

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