Peter Gulacsi, a Hungarian goalkeeper playing for the German club Leipzig, posted a message on Facebook on Wednesday in support of homosexual couples in his country, which was prohibited by a recent law from adopting children.

A position criticized by the conservatives in power in Hungary.

Hungarian Leipzig goalkeeper Peter Gulacsi supported same-sex couples on Tuesday, criticizing a law passed in his country that prevents them from adopting children.

In a post on Facebook, where he poses with his wife, the Hungarian international attacks a law introduced by the government of Prime Minister Viktor Orban in December, which allows only married couples to adopt, which effectively excludes homosexuals who do not have the right to unite legally in Hungary.

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“Everyone has the right to equality,” writes Peter Gulacsi.

"Likewise, every child has the right to grow up in a happy family, regardless of their gender, color or religion."

Gulacsi has been playing abroad since joining Liverpool in 2007, before being loaned to other English clubs, then moving to Salzburg and now Leipzig.

“The more time a person spends abroad, the more they realize that love, acceptance and tolerance for others are the most important things,” adds the Guardian in his post.

"It's not about humanity, but an attack on our children"

"Peter Gulacsi is courageous", greets the web-magazine 444. "Because in Germany, where the doorman operates, it is natural to consider homosexuals as equal to the rest of society. While in Hungary, it is not the case."

The tone is obviously very different within the conservative media.

"It is not humanity, but an attack against our children", retorts a pen of the ultra-conservative opinion site

Pesti Srácok

, scandalized by the message of Peter Gulasci.

But the most important thing about the goalkeeper, according to the newspaper,

Nemzeti Sport

, favorite reading of conservative Prime Minister Viktor Orban, football fan, are his eleven scoreless matches conceded in the German league this season and the eighth-final second leg of the League. champions who will oppose Leipzig to the Liverpool Reds on March 10.