Saint Viktor vs the queers

[asthfghl]

Hungary’s controversial anti-LGBT law goes into effect despite EU warnings:
A new law that bans the dissemination of content in schools deemed to promote homosexuality and gender change went into effect Wednesday despite a warning from Europe’s top rights watchdog that the law risks discrimination against LGBT people.

Ehm... "the law is necessary to ensure that the sexual education of children under 18 is the sole domain of parents.".... Oh we're OK then!

But srsly. It is virtually impossible to throw Hungary out of the EU. But, they can stop his EU funds and make life very difficult for the Hungarians. However, Germany is making a bit of cash from Hungary so has little interest in kicking him out. See the Realpolitik here?

If Hungary left the EU, Vlad would be over the Moon, so the people of Hungary wouldn't allow it, at the expense of Orban of course. Currently he's on a power trip and I suspect will become even more of a pain to the EU than before. What he's really after here is control of the education curriculum, so he can use it as a propaganda machine. Learning from the Chinese he is.

Oh, and Poland has been doing something similar for, like, ages now.

"Just face it, West Europe and East Europe have different values", one EMP argued. Yeah. "Family" vs "Queer". That's how it's being viewed around here. And we're supposed to be livingi in the 21st century. Go figure.

Comments

[dewline]

I would say Orbàn has learned the wrong lessons from Xi and Putin alike. Same for Duda and company in Poland.

[oportet]

What kind of primitive culture believes parents should have a say in how their children are raised?

This is blasphemy in the west, and so the squeeze begins.

[asthfghl]

Interesting nuance there in the choice of terms, "have a say". Something tells me they don't just want to have "a say".

[kiaa]

You mean like with vaccines, right? We don't want our kids to be microchipped but we still want them to go to public schools and kindergartens. We have only rights and no obligations, right?

[oportet]

I was talking about gender change being encouraged in schools. If parents don't like that, if countries don't like that - they should be able to opt out. If the leaders in Hungary have ulterior motives for the law - we can separate that.

[kiaa]

He is entitled to leave the Club the financial support of which he uses for his own friends. It is called fraud. There is evidence. He is simply afraid of not being re-elected and plays a dirty game no one needs.