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While liberals around the globe are up in arms over Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s warning that this year’s pro LGBTQ Pride March in Budapest could be in violation of the country’s child-protection laws, the world media have ignored the violent disruption of a pro-life march in Prague earlier in April.
When Hungary passed a law earlier this year that makes it illegal to hold gatherings that violate Hungary’s child protection laws, the mainstream international media, NGOs, and political establishments united in their condemnation against what they saw was an attack against sexual minorities. The EU’s commissioner for equality, Hadja Lahbib, posted on X saying – “Everyone should be able to be who they are, live & love freely. The right to gather peacefully is a fundamental right to be championed across the European Union. We stand with the LGBTQI community – in Hungary & in all Member States.” European Commission spokesman Stefan de Keersmaecker told reporters that “It is extremely important as far as we are concerned to fight any discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation,” and called attention to the frozen billions in EU funds that will not be released until, as he put it, Hungary meets its “obligations.” A Swedish politician even suggested that his country is ready to welcome some 40,000 Pride-refugees from Hungary.
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No such outrage, however, over recent disturbing scenes in Hungary’s fellow Visegrad 4 country, Czechia, where a pro-life march was forcefully disrupted by political extremists on April 26. The country, currently led by liberal PM Petr Fiala’s government, seems to be immune from criticism when violations of freedom of speech and assembly are concerned.
Two weeks ago, the peaceful March for Life in Prague was interrupted by mostly young political extremists emboldened by the Czech government’s progressive anti-family rhetoric. Families with children trying to get to Wenceslas Square in the center of town were constantly interrupted by road blocks and provocations from far-left activists shouting obscenities and holding up signs with vulgar, anti-Christian messages. Riot police had to be called in to protect the march, but provocateurs have refused to obey police orders to clear the way. Families taking part in the march were eventually forced to disperse without reaching their intended destination.
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The aggressive activists held up signs such as “Abortion saves lives,” or “Church out of the vagina,” provoking the peaceful marchers, mostly young Christian families with children, with loud insults. Even though riot police tried to remove and detain some of the activists, they eventually managed to disrupt the event. When the aggressive pro-abortion young activists saw that participants of the pro-life march started to disperse without reaching their final assembly point, they started to taunt them chanting “you did not make, you did not make it!”.
Although this is not the first time the pro-life march in Prague was attacked in recent years, the incident has not been reported by foreign media and received little attention even in the Czech press. This time, the European Commission also stayed silence, despite a clear violation of the rights of people who believe that unborn life should be protected. There were no condemnations from representatives of the Czech Fiala government either, who are all too happy to allow foreign-funded NGOs spread LGBTQ propaganda in schools all across the country.
Such a selective concern for “European values,” and the two-tier enforcement of Europe’s political standards makes it clear that
the recent concern over human-rights violations in Hungary over restrictions to the Pride march are nothing more than a coordinated attack by Europe’s LGBTQ lobby.”
All this with the blessing of Brussels’ anti-Orbán leadership who see the exertion of constant pressure and the withholding of EU funds as an acceptable means of tilting the odds before next year’s elections towards their arch-nemesis, Viktor Orbán’s political rival, Péter Magyar. In the meantime, individuals and families wishing to voice their support for the protection of unborn life are forced to walk the gauntlet of riot police and militant radicals in Peter Fiala’s European model democracy.
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