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Post by: Jessica_Rose on September 29, 2025, 02:00:19 PM
Post by: Jessica_Rose on September 29, 2025, 02:00:19 PM
Slovakia passes constitutional amendment banning "gender ideology" & gay adoption
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/09/slovakia-passes-constitutional-amendment-banning-gender-ideology-gay-adoption/
Greg Owen (29 Sep 2025)
Following a playbook from Hungary and Russia's leaders, Slovakia's populist government on Friday passed an illiberal ragbag of measures in a constitutional amendment that defines sex as binary, bans adoption by same-sex couples, outlaws surrogacy, and asserts the E.U. member's "national sovereignty in cultural and ethical matters."
Prime Minister Robert Fico, whose coalition of populist, leftist, and nationalist parties has faced mounting demonstrations in the country's capital, Bratislava, promoted the amendment as a bulwark against liberal ideology that was "spreading like cancer" in the central European state.
His populist-nationalist government argued the amendment was necessary to protect "traditional values."
"This isn't a little dam, or just a regular dam – this is a great dam against progressivism," he declared to followers.
Fico leads a precarious coalition of parties across the political spectrum. His own Smer-Social Democracy party has morphed into a nationalist party far removed from the progressive values of Europe's center-left mainstream that it was founded on.
Smer was suspended from the Party of European Socialists in 2023 after forming a coalition government with the country's far-right Slovak National Party. It's expected to be expelled at a gathering of European Socialists next month.
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/09/slovakia-passes-constitutional-amendment-banning-gender-ideology-gay-adoption/
Greg Owen (29 Sep 2025)
Following a playbook from Hungary and Russia's leaders, Slovakia's populist government on Friday passed an illiberal ragbag of measures in a constitutional amendment that defines sex as binary, bans adoption by same-sex couples, outlaws surrogacy, and asserts the E.U. member's "national sovereignty in cultural and ethical matters."
Prime Minister Robert Fico, whose coalition of populist, leftist, and nationalist parties has faced mounting demonstrations in the country's capital, Bratislava, promoted the amendment as a bulwark against liberal ideology that was "spreading like cancer" in the central European state.
His populist-nationalist government argued the amendment was necessary to protect "traditional values."
"This isn't a little dam, or just a regular dam – this is a great dam against progressivism," he declared to followers.
Fico leads a precarious coalition of parties across the political spectrum. His own Smer-Social Democracy party has morphed into a nationalist party far removed from the progressive values of Europe's center-left mainstream that it was founded on.
Smer was suspended from the Party of European Socialists in 2023 after forming a coalition government with the country's far-right Slovak National Party. It's expected to be expelled at a gathering of European Socialists next month.