EU threatens to withhold financial support from Hungary over definition of marriage: report
Image by erjkprunczyk via Flickr BUDAPEST, January 12, 2012 ( LifeSiteNews.com ) - European Union officials are making their disapproval of Hungary ’s recent constitutional changes felt by threatening to withhold financial support if it does not remove its new amendment defining marriage as between a man and a woman, according to one Hungarian source. The so-called “Easter constitution” adopted in the post- Communist country last May was a major shakeup for Hungarian politics and an outrage to progressive EU ideology: the document not only supported marriage but declared that the unborn child deserves protection from the moment of conception, and even made special mention of Christianity as lying at the heart of the country’s identity. The document’s discussion of human rights also does not mention sexual orientation, another break from EU priorities. The Hungarian daily Magyar Nemzet claimed this week that the EU would move to drop financial aid to Hungary...