11 minutes agoOrban after arriving in Brussels says he is a “freedom fighter who defends gay rights”
Periskopi(5 years ago)
(5 years ago)European Union leaders, including Emmanuel Macronin and Angela Merkel, have signed a letter pledging to fight discrimination against lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transplants and intersexuals before an expected confrontation with Victor Orban on a Hungarian law that has been widely condemned to violate the rights of the LGBTI+ community. Letter issued on Thursday [...]
The letter released on Thursday does not explicitly mention Hungary, but time is not casual, and the scene is set for heated clashes between the Hungarian prime minister and many of his counterparts at the EU summit in Brussels.
Hungary's Parliament last week adopted a bill that would ban gay people from showing educational materials, at my privilege on television, or in children's shows and movies, reports The Guardian, Periscope.
The government claims the law aims to protect children, but activists and the Council of Europe say these arguments are “misleading and false”.
Addressed by leaders of EU institutions, prior to the Day of Creary of the LGBTQ+ on June 28th, the EU letter warns of “threats against fundamental rights, and in particular the principle of non-discrimination based on sexual orientation”.
Hungary's government has been mired in a war of words with the European Commission, after President Ursula von der Leyen denounced the Hungarian bill as the shameful “”.
While Orban defended this law after arriving in Brussels.
I am a fighter for their rights. I am a warrior of freedom to the Communist regime. Homosexuality was punished and I fought for their freedom and their rights. So I'm defending gay rights, but this law isn't about that. The law has to do with deciding in what form parents would like to train their children sexually. ” /Periscope
