Hungary’s President Sharply Rebukes United Nations for “Irrelevant” Gender Ideology

By | September 29, 2022

Hungarian President Katalin Novák Addresses the General Assembly

NEW YORK, September 30 (C-Fam) After recent criticism from social conservatives that Hungary has been on the wrong side of abortion debates at the United Nations, Katalin Novák, President of Hungary, came out strong on these issues in her speech to the General Assembly last week. Novák lambasted Western countries and the United Nations system for promoting “ideological indoctrination”. Novák suggested that gender ideology is “fiction”.

“Today at a time of war, energy and food crises the organizations set up to avoid war and preserve peace are focusing on ideological indoctrination,” Novák told world leaders only a week after Western countries and the UN system held a summit on education to promote gender ideology, including promoting sexual autonomy for children and homosexual and transgender propaganda.

“This is not what is needed today. Instead, we must regain our ability to distinguish between the essential and the irrelevant, the important and unimportant, reality and fiction,” Novák insisted pointing to the examples of Elizabeth II of England and Winston Churchill.

Novák’s criticism was overshadowed by a chorus of concern about the conflict in Ukraine, the predominant theme in all statements in the General Assembly this year. But she was not entirely alone in criticizing UN social engineering.

Vatican Secretary of State, Pietro Cardinal Parolin said the promotion of “divisive” agendas by the United Nations was contributing to the “crisis of credibility” of the United Nations.

Quoting Pope Francis, he said the “flagrant imposition of contentious policies” without even attempting to find common ground among UN member states was a form of “ideological colonization.” He called for protection of the family and against “reinventing human rights.”

Guatemala’s President, Alejandro Giammattei, criticized the use of international mechanisms to promote “divisive ideologies” and called on countries to cooperate on issues on which there is agreement.

“Hunger and poverty are not ideological!” he emphasized.

Giammattei insisted that all governments and international mechanisms must respect sovereignty and that they must not interfere in the internal affairs of sovereign states. He called on countries to protect human rights, including the right to life “from conception until natural death.”

Even as most countries shied away from the culture wars in their statements, several world leaders from Western donor countries and poorer countries doubled down on promoting “sexual and reproductive health and rights” and gender ideology.

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said that “gender equality is getting worse and women’s lives are getting worse” including in “choices around sexual and reproductive health,” in a veiled attack on the reversal of Roe v. Wade by the U.S. Supreme Court earlier this year.

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez echoed Guterres on the U.S. Supreme Court. He denounced “global threats to women’s sexual and reproductive freedom” and “backsliding in certain advanced democracies.”

Canada’s Foreign Minister, Mélanie Joly also complained against “rollbacks to sexual and reproductive health and rights,” specifically calling for abortion rights.

“Canada will always stand up for your right to choose!” she said, as if speaking to the women of the world.

Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre of Norway said promoting the right of women and girls “to decide over their own bodies” was a priority of his country.

U.S. President Joe Biden prophesied that the global culture wars will be won by countries that promote “basic reproductive rights” and where “LGBTQ+ community individuals live and love freely.”

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