Will there be another EU 'exit'  over homosexuality?
Respect LGBT rights or get out of the EU, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte instructed Hungary's Viktor Orban at last week's gathering of the European Union in Brussels. According to Reuters, attendees described it as the "most intense personal clash among the bloc's leaders in years." Hungary just passed a law that bans schools from using materials seen as pro-homosexuality. According to the AP, the new law "prohibits sharing content on homosexuality or sex reassignment to people under 18 in school sex education programs, films or advertisements." Rutte eagerly related details of his confrontation with Orban: "It was really forceful, a deep feeling that this could not be. It was about our values; this is what we stand for." TRENDING: Trump reveals ex-football star Herschel Walker will run for Senate: 'He told me he's going to'  "I said, 'Stop this; you must withdraw the law, and if you don't like that and really say that the European values are not your values, then you must think about whether to remain in the European Union.'" Orban calls himself a freedom fighter and defender of traditional Catholic values who believes in democracy but not liberalism: "The Hungarian nation is not a mere pile of individuals." Almost everyone apparently came down hard on Orban. European Council President Charles Michel reminded Orban "that values such as freedom, tolerance and human dignity are at the heart of the EU." Several EU member states signed a letter declaring: "Respect and tolerance are at the core of the European project. We are committed to carry on with this effort, making sure that future European generations grow up in an atmosphere of equality and respect." U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres was in the meeting and, asked about Hungary's new law, replied: "All forms of discrimination are totally unacceptable, and obviously any form of discrimination in relation to LGBTQ+ people are totally unacceptable." The issues raised by this confrontation are many. First, those who warned in the 1960s that the EU, which began as a European Coal and Steel Community, a French-German free-trade zone of six nations, would inevitably evolve and expand into a transnational regime that would seek to impose its "values" on its members have been proven right. Christian teachings have a pedigree that goes back millennia. For the stand the EU takes today  that homosexuality is natural and normal and should be morally and legally the equal to other forms of sexual expression  flatly contradicts those Christian beliefs and values Europe itself reflected at the EU's infancy. Not until this century in the USA was homosexuality declared a constitutional right. Justice Antonin Scalia famously dissented from that decision. American values, once declared to be freedom, liberty and independence, have evolved into inclusiveness, diversity and tolerance. Which brings us to the cancel culture. We're getting close here to what cancel culture is all about. If the Hungarian people and nation find that EU values conflict with their Catholic and Hungarian values, they should declare their independence of the EU as anything other than a trading bloc. SUPPORT TRUTHFUL JOURNALISM. MAKE A DONATION TO THE NONPROFIT WND NEWS CENTER. THANK YOU!