Hungary’s population of 9.5 million citizens already stands out in the globalist European Union for embracing traditional families and patriotism, and Hungary’s parliament keeps pushing normalcy with a 140-21 vote to amend the country’s constitution again.
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To hear critics from the other side, Hungary is endangering human rights and suppressing dissent with the amendment that recognizes two sexes, bans public “pride” events, and prohibits the depiction of homosexuality to anyone under age 18.
The amendment is controversial because of Hungary’s longtime prime minister, Viktor Orban, who supported it.
The populist leader, portrayed by critics as a freedom-robbing authoritarian, has openly called for Hungary to distance itself from the rest of Europe by promoting traditional marriage and families, maintaining its independence, and keeping out foreigners.
With leadership from Orban, the country’s constitution has been repeatedly updated going back several years to reflect a traditional view of marriage, family, and culture.
Robert Gagnon, a Bible scholar and seminary professor, tells AFN Hungary is bravely pushing back on the rainbow culture.
“The LGBTQ movement,” he says, “is a cancer on the morality of a society.”
Reading through the amendment, Gagnon says the goal is to protect minors who have been the target of a “full-court assault” by LGBTA ideology for a long time.
“Minors are facing regular, forcible indoctrination into LGBTQ ideology,” he warns, “and that's really what's changing things.”
Orban defends 'normal'
Political critics say Orban, who has been prime minister since 2010, is using a counter-culture message of family and biblical beliefs to energize right-wing voters so he can remain in power.
Defenders of Orban, however, say he stands out because most of Europe is dying from low birth rates, a lack of national pride and patriotism, and a never-ending wave of Third World immigrants.
When he spoke at CPAC last fall, the Hungarian leader described the strategies his political enemies use against him. One strategy is redefining what "normal" means and then suggesting something is wrong with you for not embracing it.
"Anyone who thinks otherwise is either ignorant or insane," he said. "The perception must be created that listening to them would lead to some fatal catastrophe."
After this week’s parliament vote, Orban wrote that Hungary is “protecting children’s development, affirming that a person is born either male or female, and standing firm against drugs and foreign interference.”
In Hungary, he wrote, “common sense matters.”
Asked if the United States could ever see a similar cultural reversal, Gagnon says that might seem impossible because the LGBTQ movement seems so entrenched in the culture and in society. What hurts that movement, he adds, is it doesn’t know how to put the brakes on its perverse behavior.
“Society is making a little bit of a turn,” he observes, “and that's because the transgenderism issue has been a huge assault on civil liberties and on the protection of children and females.”
