Hungary’s parliament passed a law allowing any citizen to anonymously report homosexual couples with children, in line with government restrictions on the LGBTI community in favor of child protection, it was announced Thursday.
The diploma, approved by the deputies this week, empowers citizens to warn authorities about behaviors that allegedly violate “the role of marriage and the family as enshrined in the Constitution” and that fail to respect the right of children to identify “with the gender at birth,” Bloomberg reported.
The Hungarian constitution specifies that marriage is a union “between a man and a woman” and adds that “the mother is a woman and the father is a man”, implying that any model of adoption or foster care of children is prohibited by law by homosexual couples.
The government of ultra-nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has also taken steps to limit the content of or references to the LGBTI (lesbian, ‘gay’, bisexual, transgender and intersex) community in schools, arguing that it is up to families is to make decisions about the education of their children.
However, his policy caused doubts among both human rights organizations and the European Commission.
The city council took Hungary to the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) over the controversial law against pedophilia and the protection of minors, accusing it of being discriminatory and violating the rights of the country’s LGBTI community.
Source: DN
