A bookstore chain in Hungary was fined for selling a children’s story describing a day in the life of a child with same-sex parents. Hungarian officials condemn the picture book for describing such families. According to the British newspaper Guardian, the picture book is a Hungarian translation, What a family!, which combines two titles by the American author Lawrence Schimel and the illustrator Elina Braslina, Early One Morning, showing the morning of a child with his two mothers, and Bedtime, Not Playtime!, in which a girl with two fathers is reluctant to go to sleep.
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“Contents not in the standard”
For selling the book, a fine of 250,000 (approximately € 697) was imposed on the Líra Könyv bookstore chain from Pest County, the local authority for the Budapest area. County commissioner Richard Tarnai told the TV station News TV that the chain violated the rules on unfair commercial practices by not clearly indicating that the book contained “content that deviates from the norm”.
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Author Schimel tweeted that the Hungarian government is “trying to normalize hatred and prejudice with these concerted attacks on books like mine … which represent the plural and diverse world they live in for children.” Líra Könyv said she will now put up a sign to warn customers that she has sold “books with content other than traditional ones”. “Rainbow families are completely normal, normal families,” the book’s Hungarian distributor, Foundation for Rainbow Families, said in a statement.
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The fine was imposed under a Hungarian law banning unfair commercial practices, but comes during what international bodies and NGOs describe as a broad crackdown on LGBT rights in the country, under Viktor’s rule. Orbán. Just today the controversial new law that prohibits “representation or promotion” of homosexuality and gender change among minors came into force, and which is harshly criticized by the European institutions: after the Commission and several continental leaders, yesterday The European Parliament “condemned it with the utmost firmness”, with a motion asking the Commission to initiate an accelerated infringement procedure. The text passed with 459 yes, 147 no and 58 abstentions.
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The sovereign leader assures that the law is not homophobic and aims to “protect the rights of children”, warning Brussels against interfering in the education of young Hungarians. “The European Parliament and the Commission want LGBT + activists in kindergartens and schools. We don’t want them”, he repeated again. Orbán Thursday in a video posted on his Facebook account. Yesterday, the President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen once again called the law a “shame” and threatened to start an infringement procedure for violating European law.
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On the streets of Budapest, the television station RTL Klub covered his posters showing the marriage of a gay couple in protest, as part of the promotion of one of his successful soap operas. Several NGOs and the Hungarian LGTB + community have announced that they will disobey the law. According to some media outlets, a strict reading of the law means that children’s films like the series of Harry Potter they cannot be broadcast during children’s time, as the sexual identity of the protagonists is dealt with in some parts.
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