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‘Political backlash’ blamed for halting LGBT+ rights gains in Europe?
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Progress on laws to boost LGBT+ rights has come to a virtual standstill in Europe amid a rise in homophobic and anti-transgender rhetoric by politicians in countries including Poland and Hungary, an advocacy group said on Monday.
Britain, Italy and Ukraine were among the nations that scored lower rankings in this year’s “Rainbow Europe” index compiled by ILGA-Europe, which said legislative reforms had stalled due to increasing polarisation over LGBT+ rights.
“There’s been a clear political backlash in many countries, and not just ones grabbing headlines like Poland and Hungary,” Evelyne Paradis, ILGA-Europe’s executive director, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation by phone.
Under Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, Hungary has excluded same-sex marriage from the constitution, effectively banned gay adoptions and legal recognition of trans people, and often depicts homosexuality as an aberration.
In Poland, LGBT+ rights have become a flashpoint in a wider culture war unfolding between religious conservatives and liberals, highlighting what Paradis described as “growing political polarisation” in various countries.
“It’s becoming harder to mobilise across the political spectrum to get the issues done. There’s mounting opposition. There’s also frankly a lack sometimes of political will to see it through,” she said.
It is totally irrelevant how many pillows are bitten by ‘poofy-woofies’ or straws used to inseminate ‘licky-lickies’, etc. etc. etc.
However, sexual deviants should perform ‘whatever turns them on’ in their own bedrooms or toilets – and not pretend that these acts are some sort of new ‘norm’.
It is TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE for LGBTQWXYZ ‘advocates’ to dictate how sovereign nations deal with these issues, yet alone COMPLAIN when some refuse to recognise the ‘rights’ of such poor individuals.
“Rainbow Europe” obviously goes from Brussels directly to Malta and it should stay like that – SIMPLE !
Alfred -your indignation is impotent, rather like yourself. That said, there are a number of DNH readers that look forward to your near daily childish rants. Your personality disorder and continuing disintegration is fascinating to observe, almost worthy of a paper in the Lancet. The more excruciating your syntax, the greater the neural damage is obvious. Unfortunately the only prognosis for this condition is terminal, keyboard warriors inevitably self combust.