Original source: http://www.politics.hu/20110331/g...against-new-constitution-on-april-15
Hungarian gay civil rights groups will hold a demonstration in Budapest on April 15 against the new constitution draft's passages on marriage and equal rights for gay people, the organisers said on Wednesday.
Daniel Kaderjak, the chairman of one of the groups, said the draft defines marriage in a way which causes segregation.
The gay groups have started an online petition on this subject, signed by 700 so far, including some famous public figures, said Kaderjak.
The petitioners have started to operate a Coalition for Gay Equality (MEGYEK), which will organise the demonstration on the square in front of parliament.
Tamas Dombos, a representative of another gay rights organisation, said the constitution draft discriminates against the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community and it goes against its key principle of promoting social cohesion. He added that the governing Fidesz party had earlier emphasised that the new constitution would be based on the European Union's Charter of Fundamental Rights, yet it does not ban discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.
"This is unlike anywhere in western Europe," he said.
Adrian Balaci, of the LGBT unit of Amnesty International Hungary, said the Constitutional Court's earlier practice of talking about the rights of "men and women" to marry, instead of considering heterosexual and homosexual people, was unacceptable. This is the practice the government follows, too, he said.
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