Hungary bans media & schools from talking about gay people in new “anti-pedophilia” law

Hungary Prime Minister Viktor Orbán
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Hungary just banned TV programs and schools from talking about gay people in a sweeping bill that advocates said will fight pedophilia and the sexual abuse of children.

“This is a blanket approval to treat LGBT people with discrimination, with hatred,” said András Léderer at the Hungarian Helsinki Committee Europe. “The idea that being gay poses a risk in itself to people under 18 is such a horrible vicious concept … It will have tragic effects on the mental well being of young LGBT people.”

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The attacks on LGBTQ rights continued in the central European nation as Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s right-populist Fidesz Party passed a law similar to Russia’s ban on “homosexual propaganda” today.

Of the 199 members of Hungary’s parliament, 157 voted in favor of the anti-LGBTQ bill, one voted against it, and the rest abstained, some in protest of the vote.

“There are contents which children under a certain age can misunderstand and which may have a detrimental effect on their development at the given age, or which children simply cannot process, and which could therefore confuse their developing moral values or their image of themselves or the world,” said a spokesperson for the Hungarian government.

The law only allows organizations registered on a government list to conduct sex education in schools. The government defended the measure, saying that there are…

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