in World News Hungarian Parliament Bans LGBT Pride Events with Amendment to Child Protection Law
Hungary’s parliament, led by Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s national-conservative and anti-globalist Fidesz party, passed new “child protection” legislation on Tuesday, which, among other provisions, bans LGBT ‘Pride’ marches.
The law—an amendment to the Assembly Act—passed by a decisive 136-27 vote with no abstentions and backed by Orbán’s Fidesz party and their minority coalition partner, the Christian Democrats, makes it “illegal to hold an assembly that violates the prohibition set forth in Child Protection Act.”
“Today, we voted to ban gatherings that violate child protection laws. In Hungary, a child’s right to healthy physical, mental, intellectual, and moral development comes first. We won’t let woke ideology endanger our kids,” Prime Minister Orbán wrote on X following the cote.
The Child Protection Act passed in 2024, prohibits the “depiction or promotion” of homosexuality, gender reassignment, or deviation from birth sex identity to minors under the age of 18.