PM Orbán: The sexual education of children is a duty of parents

Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has told German news agency dpa that the sexual education of children is a duty of parents, while fighting against paedophilia is that of the state.

 

“It is the duty of the state to provide special protection for the physical integrity and mental health of children,” PM Orbán said. Hungary stands with this position “in the center of European set of values and an open and tolerant European Union,” the prime minister said.

In connection with the Union of European Football Associations’ (UEFA) decision to ban the lighting of the stadium in Munich in rainbow colors during the Hungary-Germany Euro 2020 qualifier on Wednesday evening, PM Orbán said “whether the Munich football stadium or another European stadium is lit in rainbow colors is not a state decision”. “The rainbow colors are naturally a part of the street image,” in Budapest as well, he said.

PM Orbán said that “in communist Hungary, homosexual people were persecuted”. “Today the state not only guarantees the rights of homosexuals but actively protects them,” he said, adding that “the freedom of the individual is the greatest value.” Everybody must be free to decide for themselves which path to choose in life, PM Orbán said.