Zoltán Vass (L) with his Civic Bravery Prize

Hungarian citizens have braved the summer heat on Saturday to join the Budapest “March for Family Pride”, organized by the Our Homeland (Mi Hazánk) party. Families with children, young and elderly, have come together to take part in the event celebrating traditional family values, contrasting them to gender ideology now spreading in Hungary through TISZA government propaganda. During the event, the man who has allegedly thrown LGBTQ rainbow flags into the river from the Elizabeth Bridge, has received a prize from the organizers.

The organizers of the event, called “March for Family Pride”, have called the demonstration in order to protest against increasingly aggressive gender ideology propaganda in public places, the media and educational institutions. After over a decade of LGBTQ ideology being opposed and even banned by the Orbán government, the openly pro-LGBTQ TISZA government, as well as the Mayor of Budapest, are making symbols of the far-left ideology ubiquitous across Hungary. Despite Péter Magyar’s claim that they are right-wing and conservative, his government is stacked full of radical leftist gender ideology activists, such as education minister Judit Lannert, or Kriszta Bódis MP.

March for Family Pride at the Mathias Church in Budapest. Photo: Hungary Today

The right-wing Our Homeland (Mi Hazánk) party has called the march with the aim to stand up for traditional family values, where a mother is a woman and the father is a man. The president of the third largest parliamentary party, László Toroczkai, has called an end to the spread of gender ideology in Hungary, and has pointed to Western societies where it has not only become a norm, but also a mandatory political stance for those who want to climb the social ladder.

He recalled that the radical left-wing Pride movement has originally started in New York after a confrontation between police and homosexual activists at the Stonewall pub. As Toroczkai put it, the family values that normal Hungarians hold as their own are based on thousands of years of civilization, as well as on a biblical ethos, rather than a “pub brawl”. He warned that what might appear outwardly as a mere human rights movement, is in fact the world largest lobby group. Today, with the TISZA party’s power grab, the world’s most powerful lobby has its activists in the Hungarian government, he pointed out.

László Toroczkai speaks during the Budapest rally. Photo: Hungary Today

Toroczkai has also warned against legalizing the adoption of children by same sex couples. He asked Hungarian citizens to keep demonstrating and to keep putting pressure on the left-wing Magyar government, otherwise the LGBTQ lobby will grow more aggressive and will usurp more and more rights to itself, just as it does in Western Europe. He pointed at Pride marches, where fully naked men can now be seen marching during these events in other countries, vowing not to allow this to happen in Hungary.

The man, who has allegedly been filmed ripping Pride flags off Elizabeth Bridge in Budapest, has also been invited to attend the Saturday demonstration. The person, who was named Zoltán Vass by Mr. Toroczkai, has received the Our Homeland Movement’s “Civic Courage Prize” (Közbátorságért díj) for his solo act before Budapest Pride. As we have reported earlier, the police have charged a middle aged man in relation with the incident, who has removed the flags planted by liberal Budapest mayor Gergely Karácsony. Police was later criticized for being able to apprehend the man within 48 ours of the incident, while the person who was seen throwing Hungary’s national flag into the river from the same location a couple of days later is still unknown.

Participants of the March in Budapest castle. Photo: Hungary Today

Mr. Vass was allegedly charged by prosecutors with vandalism and fined 3 million forints (EUR 8500), the sum that some donors have promised to refund. A few days later though a group of activist has also been seen removing another batch of Pride flags from the bridge, replacing them with the Hungarian tricolor.

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