Hungary's rightwing rulers downplay MEP 'gay orgy' scandal amid hypocrisy accusations

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Source: The Guardian

Hungary's rightwing rulers downplay MEP 'gay orgy' scandal amid hypocrisy accusations

József Szájer had boasted of rewriting constitution to define marriage as heterosexual institution

Shaun Walker in Budapest
Wed 2 Dec 2020 15.01 GMT

Hungary’s prime minister, Viktor Orbán, has condemned the behaviour of MEP József Szájer, from his rightwing Fidesz party, after Szájer’s participation in a “gay orgy” in Brussels prompted accusations of hypocrisy.

“What our representative, József Szájer, did has no place in the values of our political family. We will not forget nor repudiate his 30 years of work, but his deed is unacceptable and indefensible,” said Orbán on Wednesday evening. He said Szájer had left the party. He had already resigned as an MEP over the weekend.

Orbán’s government has enacted a range of legislation over the past decade infringing on LGBT rights, and Szájer boasted of personally rewriting Hungary’s constitution to define marriage as a heterosexual institution in 2011.

That made it all the more embarrassing when he was caught by Brussels police shimmying down a drainpipe to escape a gay orgy last Friday. Police raided the gathering as it violated Belgium’s coronavirus regulations.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/dec/02/hungary-rightwing-rulers-downplay-mep-jozsef-szajer-gay-orgy-scandal-amid-hypocrisy-accusations

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Also:
• Brussels 'sex party': Hungarian MEP József Szájer fled along a gutter with drugs in backpack (Euronews)
• Jozsef Szajer: Hungary MEP quits after allegedly fleeing gay orgy (BBC)


Jozsef Szajer is a senior member of Hungary's ruling Fidesz party

[Mike 03]

1. Very interesting. Orban is also destroying Democracy from the inside.

He's another player in this war on Democracy and these countries have savaged equal rights for LGBT people and women (especially women's reproductive rights) and religious minorities. Hungary and several other autocracies are aiming to become Christian Nations.

Hitler's close friend, and the leader of the SA (stormtroopers), Ernst Rohm, was openly gay at the same time Nazis were cracking down on LGBT people, and Hitler ignored it until the violence of the stormtroopers became an embarrassment even to German conservatives, right as Hitler was within reach of becoming the Fuhrer (he was already Chancellor and was close to becoming President as well). So when Rohm became "inconvenient" his sexuality became an issue and part of the justification for murdering him on the Night of the Long Knives.

Dictators.

Hypocrisy.