Hanko: Traditional family ‘base unit of society’

Speaking at the conference organised by the 21st Century Institute and the Mathias Corvinus Collegium, Hanko said that being Hungarian “provides a solid foundation and feeling”.

He said the protection of children and binary human identity were a given, and multiple genders would not be welcome, while the rights of parents when it came to schooling were unassailable.

Community and national identity, he said, had become fluid lately, but if identity became unmoored, “then not a single pole will remain holding the world together”.

The reproduction and sustenance of the human race “for biological, cultural and sacred reasons” was the “iron law”, he added.

Otherwise, all that derived from faith, tradition and common human culture “will be called into question”.

Hanko said liberalism sought to establish an “internal thought police” in anyone who did not toe the liberal line. “We’re now at the point where normality needs an explanation,” he said, arguing that this state of affairs caused anxiety.

Maria Schmidt, the 21st Century Institute’s head, said the “American export of democracy” imposed a system of values that was incompatible with “our traditions and Christian heritage that have crystallized over more than 1,100 years”.

She called Americanization “anti-life” and an attack on “our customs, values, identity”, as well as an “open attack on our cultural and political sovereignty”.

“In today’s Western world, the slogan is ‘make war, not to make love’,” she said, adding that “the pro-sex culture has turned into a new prudery that denies gender differences and celebrates trans people”.

Political thinker Andras Lanczi said God “clearly created man as having two sexes”. Sexuality, he added, should not be objectified, and sexuality once synonymous with love had by today become “empty”. He also said that in today’s Western world childbearing was met with “rank hostility”.