Conservatives give Hungarian strongman a standing ovation for opposition to LGBTQ rights

Hungary’s authoritarian prime minister Viktor Orbán delivered an anti-LGBTQ speech in Dallas on Thursday, receiving a standing ovation from conservatives.

The dictator kicked off the Conservative Political Action Conference’s (CPAC) annual gathering with an address attacking same-sex marriage and same-sex families, and alluding to the false “groomer” narrative that has recently proliferated on the American right.

“Hungary shall protect the institution of marriage as a union of one man and one woman,” Orbán said. “Family ties shall be based on marriage or the relationship between parents and children. To sum up, the mother is a woman. The father is a man. And leave our kids alone. Full stop. End of discussion.”

Orbán’s appearance at CPAC’s annual conference followed widespread criticism of a speech he gave in Hungary last week in which he decried Europe becoming a “mixed race” society.

“We do not want to become peoples of mixed race,” Orbán said in the speech, which one close aide described as “pure Nazi text,” resigning in protest.

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