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'I told Orbán his LGBT law was homophobic,' says Luxembourg's foreign minister

In an interview with Euronews' Europe Today show, Xavier Bettel said he once confronted outgoing Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán about the law he had passed targeting LGBT people. Bettel said he told Orbán: "Being gay is not a choice, but being homophobic is a choice."

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00:03Luxembourg's Foreign Minister Xavier Betel compared the discrimination of minorities in
00:08Hungary under the urban government to policies of fascist regimes.
00:12It's not the fact that I'm gay that I just fight for gay rights, but it's the fact that
00:16I fight for minorities and it's always easier to fight against the smallest group in some
00:24countries.
00:24Being gay is not a choice, but being homophobic is a choice, and to do politics by blaming
00:30someone reminds me seriously how it starts also with Jewish people and then with gypsies.
00:39Our ban's legislation prohibited showing to children content relating to gay or transgender
00:45issues, arguing it violated child protection laws.
00:50I talked to Victor at that moment when he wants also a ban in Hungary to speak even
00:59about LGBTI questions that I didn't become gay because I watch TV.
01:04Betel was speaking to Euronews at a meeting of foreign ministers in Luxembourg when the European
01:10Court of Justice ruled that Hungarian anti-LGBTQ laws violate EU rules and infringe inequality
01:16rights.
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