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• HUNGARY AMENDS NSTUTN TO REFE FAY, LIMS GAY ADOPTN
• EASTERN EUROPE WAS ONCE A WORLD LEAR ON GAY RIGHTS. THEN RAN OUT OF SPEGOATS

HUNGARY AMENDS NSTUTN TO REFE FAY, LIMS GAY ADOPTN

Image source, RtersImage ptn, Activists displayed a huge rabow balloon ont of Hungary's parliament to prott agast the lawThe European Parliament has voted favour of urgent legal actn over Hungary's new law banng the pictn of homosexualy to new legislatn breached "EU valu, prcipl and law", MEPs parliament add that the law was "another tentnal and premedated example of the gradual dismantlg of fundamental rights Hungary" Mister Viktor Orban sists school policy is a matter for Hungary, not "Bssels burecrats" a rolutn passed on Thursday wh 459 favour, 147 agast and 58 abstentns, MEPs said the latt velopments Hungary followed a broar pattern of polil parliament urged the European Commissn to e a new tool that allows the EU to rce budget allotns to member stat breach of the le of law, to ensure that the Hungarian ernment reverse the cisn. Crics say Hungary's new law, which me to force on Thursday, equat homosexualy wh paedophilia.

The new l troduced by Hungary foc on creasg punishment for nvicted paedophil, but an amendment was passed on 15 June banng the portrayal or promotn of homosexualy among uld affect sex tn and advertisg, and even stop TV favour such as Friends or Harry Potter beg broadst until late at night, there are also fears that vulnerable young people uld be prived of important support. Hungary also do not regnise gay Orban has been wily cricised the EU, acced of curbg the rights of migrants and other mori, policisg the urts and media, and toleratg anti-Semism.

Towns and provc across Poland have clared themselv “ee of LGBTQ iology” to prevent pri paras and other gay-iendly events om gog ahead. Durg last year’s electn mpaign, Print Andrzej Duda referred to homosexualy as a “foreign iology” that’s “worse than munism. “This law stat that school lsons touchg on qutns of sexualy mt not promote genr reassignment or homosexualy, ” he was quoted as sayg.

EASTERN EUROPE WAS ONCE A WORLD LEAR ON GAY RIGHTS. THEN RAN OUT OF SPEGOATS

Signifint progrs has been difficult, sce Poland has been facg a le-of-law crisis gog back to at least 2017, when the right-wg Law and Jtice, or PiS party began spreadg s fluence on key bodi such as the Constutnal crisis the judiciary ns so ep that the EU iated Article 7 proceedgs agast Poland, which spend certa rights for member stat if they are emed to persistently be breach of the EU’s fundamental European Commissn lnched legal proceedgs agast Poland at the European Court of Jtice (ECJ), a se known as Commissn v Poland, and the ECJ orred Poland to spend the laws that terfere wh the pennce of the ignored the the untry’s Human Rights Ombudsman, Marc Wiącek, has cid to tackle both the homophobic rolutns and the falterg legal system at the same Office of the Ombudsman, while formally an stutn fanced by the ernment, exists many untri as an pennt one-man state body wh the mandate to lnch quiri to vlatns of human rights perpetrated by any stutn or body the his electn was marred by difficulty, wh PiS blockg the opposn-backed ndidate for 10 months. So, let’s take a quick look at the anti-gay movement as veloped by ernment sign Poland.

” Acrdg to their timele on the Polish velopments, the first sign of a possible asslt on the gay muny was Jarosław Kaczyński’s ment at a lol electn mpaign April 2018 that “no homosexual marriag will occur; we will wa peacefully for the European Unn untri to sober up.