Posted on 03/17/2025 8:39:10 AM PDT by Salman
BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungary’s ruling coalition continued its crackdown on the country’s LBGTQ+ community on Monday, as members submitted a bill to parliament that would ban the popular Budapest Pride event and allow authorities to use facial recognition software to identify attendees.
The bill is almost certain to pass, as the ruling coalition has a two-thirds majority in parliament.
The bill would make it an offense to hold or attend events that violate Hungary’s contentious “child protection” legislation, which prohibits the “depiction or promotion” of homosexuality to minors under 18.
Attending a prohibited event would carry fines up to 200,000 Hungarian forints ($546), which the state would forward to “child protection.”
The proposal is the latest step against LGBTQ+ people taken by Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, whose government has passed legislation that rights groups and other European politicians have decried as repressive against sexual minorities.
The government portrays itself as a champion of traditional family values and a defender of Christian civilization from what it calls “gender madness,” and argues its policies are designed to protect children from “sexual propaganda.”
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Trump has “common sense” kickin’ in all over the globe.
Globohomo Uber Alles
Yep, common sense is starting to become a bit more common!
I case nobody noticed, Putin’s been doing this for years.
Gosh, Trump doesn’t have jack shit to do with what is going on in Hungary, Orban and the Hungarian people have been Hungary first for a long long time and also very family oriented. Trump deserves credit for a lot, but not for the path that Hungary has been on.
Hungary is a traditional conservative Catholic country. That description has fit Hungary for centuries so this is nothing new. Orban is not doing anything here that the Hungarian people do not overwhelmingly support.
You’ve got to laugh at the way American Pravda calls the Gay parade “popular” but calls the law protecting children “contentious”. The reality is the vast majority of Hungarians agree with their overwhelmingly popularly elected prime minister on this issue.
Yep, and Hungary paid a big price for their nationalistic “Hungary First” in 1956–when they tried to show some independence from Russia and the Soviet bloc.
And the Ayatollahs in Iran and the Saudis and Qataris and Pakistanis have always banned them - that doesn’t make Putin or the Ayatollahs anything but “a broken clock that is right two a day”
You don’t agree with protecting children and society from the queer agenda?
I don’t think I said that he did.
And the Ayatollahs in Iran and the Saudis and Qataris and Pakistanis have always banned them - that doesn’t make Putin or the Ayatollahs anything but “a broken clock that is right two a day”
The fact that I support bringing back Victorian laws against this is separate from the fact that Putin, the Ayatollahs etc. are evil regimes who, except for this one case (and to be fair also abrtn) conduct evil acts
Heck even moustache man was against animal cruelty, that doesn't make him a paragon
I misread your meaning. It happens to me a lot lately. Going through some tough medical issues.
I’ll try and concentrate next time.
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