“Information is not the same as persuasion. Visibility is not propaganda,” he wrote on Monday evening in his Facebook post Zoltán Lakner is a political analyst. On Monday, politicians from Mi Hazánk and KDNP spoke against Pride in the Parliament, and Lakner reflected on this in his post.
He began his post by saying that, in a special way, the Prime Minister expressed for the second time that there would be Pride and also argued for the right to adopt same-sex couples. According to Lakner, it is difficult to call it a politically dangerous topic, because according to the latest surveys, there is now a two-thirds majority in society in favor of the adoption rights of same-sex couples and marriage equality. Although he knows that this is not the most pressing problem for society as a whole, he pointed out that it is not a vitally important topic for so few.
KDNP’s Juhász Hajnalka brought it up on Mondaythat this weekend’s Pride could have a bad effect on the traditional family model, and stated that as an adult, he thinks everyone should live the way they want. Lakner noted that the opposition politicians were again talking about the LGBTQ lobby and propaganda, which he still does not understand.
“I will never understand why this is not true backwards, I mean, there are quite a few of us who simply became gay without knowing about the existence of the Pride parade, or more precisely, we are, even though we never “chosen” it.”
“The KDNP generously allows me to be gay if I decide to do so as an adult – because this has so many advantages in a world arranged by the KDNP – but it doesn’t have an answer to what I should have started as a teenager, when I had no one to turn to with my questions about my identity, for which I didn’t even have words at the time. Information, support, help, enlightenment cannot wait until the KDNP, the Fidesz or Mi Házánk allows it.
Information is not the same as persuasion.
Visibility is not propaganda.”
He also went on to say that he thinks a child waiting for adoption can expect a better future with same-sex parents than “Dutch human traffickers, aggressive or alcoholic parents, or children’s homes in their current state”, and he thinks that members of the LGBTQ community should have the same right to marriage as anyone else. At Monday’s debate, it was also argued that Pride should not be held on Saint László’s Day.
“I have bad news, Saint László is also ours, because we are also Hungarians, despite the fact that we are, for example, gay. I do not believe that there are also religious gays.”
He concluded his post by saying that no one wants extra rights, nor do they want to lobby, it’s just that “as human beings, our value is the same and we all have the right to live a life with dignity.”
“It’s not a big deal, it’s just our life.”
