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Ever the contrarian, President Václav Klaus took the predictable yet illogical step of disparaging Prague’s first-ever gay pride event.
In addition to placing himself in direct opposition to fun, this allows the president to trot out his usual rhetoric that concepts like human rights are some fictional creation.
In vintage form, Klaus is defending the comments of his adviser Petr Hájek, who referred to homosexuals as “deviants,” among much worse, in an opinion piece criticizing this week’s Prague Pride event.
Klaus, in typically contradictory manner, immediately termed all the rightfully resulting criticisms of Hájek as an “attack on free speech.” Apparently, the concept of free speech ends where people disagree with Klaus or his friends. It is selective, whereby applying to the drivel emanating from Prague Castle: Ignorant statements about homosexuality are allowed, but responses are not.
Even worse, in the Klausian world view, the mayor of Prague is not free to support the Prague Pride event.
On his personal website, Klaus criticized Mayor Bohuslav Svoboda for issuing a city blessing of the event, saying, “It is one thing to tolerate it, but to express public support on behalf of a significant institution is something completely different.”
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