BUDAPEST PRIDE 2025 – Beyond the Rainbow: What’s Behind the European Pride

On Saturday, June 28, 2025, Budapest was the scene of an event with an extraordinary media and symbolic impact: over 100,000 people participated in the Gay Pride, defying the ban imposed by the Hungarian government led by Viktor Orbán. Western media celebrated the event as a “victory of freedom” and a “defeat of obscurantism,” with headlines such as “Gay Pride beats Orbán” ( La Repubblica ).

The narrative immediately appeared Manichean: on one side, the “rainbow people” heroically opposed to a repressive regime; on the other, a government described as an enemy of rights. Europe has openly sided with the protest, without nuance or doubt.

However, no space has been given to the cultural, educational and moral reasons of the Hungarian position. Those who defend an anthropological vision based on natural law are dismissed with contemptuous labels: “homophobic”, “retrospective”, “fascist”. Is this really the face of freedom? And above all: who decides which vision of man can be discussed in the public space?

EU intervention: defence of rights in the Union or ideological imposition?

Here's what Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, tweeted two days before Pride:

“I call on the Hungarian authorities to allow Budapest Pride to take place safely, freely, without fear of sanctions. To the LGBTQ+ community, I say: I will always be by your side, I am your ally.”— Ursula von der Leyen, 25 June 2025

A message that crossed the line between protection of rights and political activism. The president of one of the highest institutions of the EU took a stand at a national event against the line of a democratically elected government, implicitly legitimizing the violation of an internal norm. To many, this did not seem like a gesture of protection, but an act of open political interference.

I call on the Hungarian authorities to allow the Budapest Pride to go ahead.

Without fear of any criminal or administrative sanctions against the organizers or participants.

To the LGBTIQ+ community in Hungary and beyond:

I will always be your ally. pic.twitter.com/Wz0GBFRz8C

— Ursula von der Leyen (@vonderleyen) June 25, 2025

Orbán responded clearly, asking the Commission not to interfere in internal security issues, stating:

“The protection of children is more important than the right to assembly. We will not allow our children to be exposed to ideologies that contradict the values ​​of family and nation.”— Viktor Orbán, June 27, 2025

The Paradigm Shift: Rewriting the Human Being

Behind events like the Budapest Pride, presented by the media as spontaneous and popular demonstrations, there are actually organized and strategically coordinated forces at work. It is no longer a question, as some would have us believe, of fighting discrimination or protecting minorities. The objective is much more ambitious and profound : to rewrite human anthropology and delegitimize any government that does not bend to this vision, pushing towards forms of society increasingly homologated to the new global paradigms.

There is a precise plan in action: to replace the vision of man as a being rooted in a natural order, made of relationships, limits and meaning, with a fluid, indeterminate and subjective idea of ​​identity , free from any biological or symbolic data. But this is not only a cultural project: it is a political project in the fullest sense of the term , because it shapes the form of coexistence, education, rights, institutions and even the very perception of power.

In recent years, sexual identity has been emptied of its biological and relational foundation. Being a man or a woman is reduced to a “perception,” and the body becomes material to be adapted to desires. This perspective – already introduced into school programs through “alias careers” – proposes that even minors can redefine themselves according to the orientation of the moment.

What was once considered a given – the sexual body, the difference between men and women, the family – today becomes an obstacle to overcome. Reality is seen not as a foundation, but as a problem. The result is a disembodied culture, where identity is not built on what one is, but on what one feels oneself to be .

The price is paid above all by young people, immersed in a perpetual ambiguity. While family, school and religion lose authority, the individual is pushed to "reinvent himself", without stable references. This results in disorientation, fragility, existential anxiety. Instead of guiding the discovery of one's self, the dominant culture encourages a permanent oscillation that prevents personal growth.

Educating for reality: a decisive challenge

This confusion is not answered with repression or moralism, but with an educational and evangelizing proposal from the Church that leads back to reality . If the debate on identity is so heated, it is because the fundamental question is at stake: who is man?

Against the deceptive promise of unlimited freedom, we must show that true liberation comes from recognizing the truth of oneself: identity as a gift, not as an arbitrary choice . Educating means helping to discover that one's body, one's history, one's sexual difference are significant, and not obstacles. Freedom does not lie in denying what one is, but in transforming it into a relationship and a gift.

In concrete terms, educating means teaching young people to look at reality as a whole in the totality of its factors, not to reshape it according to cultural fashions. It means introducing them to the beauty of the data – body, affections, bonds – and to the discovery of the meaning that is not invented, but accepted.

What's at stake: a global project for a new man

At this point it is clear: the issue is not Gay Pride itself, but the political and ideological use that is made of it . The Budapest event has been transformed into a testing ground to impose, from above, a fluid anthropological model functional to a new global order.

These are not random mistakes or naive policies. The main transnational institutions – UN, EU, NGOs, foundations and globalist think tanks – are actively implementing a cultural and educational project to produce a more flexible, adaptable humanity, disconnected from its roots. The fluid man is the ideal man for a technocratic society: without identity, without borders, without roots – and therefore easily governable.

The paradox is evident: while Europe is silent in the face of educational crises, social disintegration and declining birth rates, it invests millions in promoting a vision of the human that replaces reality with self-perception, pity with the struggle for life, truth with subjectivity . Pride thus becomes the symbol of a new state ideology, in which everything is equivalent, nothing is stable and power remains with those who know how to manipulate languages, emotions and fragility .

Pride in Hungary: A Watershed Between Two Visions of Man

Ultimately, the Budapest Gay Pride 2025 marked a point of no return. More than a demonstration, it was an attack on an idea of ​​civilization . The one attacked was the one that still recognizes the natural reality of man, sexual difference, the value of the family, educational responsibility. Instead, a fluid, post-human vision was acclaimed, which dismantles every reference to open the way to a man reshaped to measure for the new global agendas.

The Hungarian government has chosen a clear path, countercurrent but coherent: to defend a model of society based on cultural roots, on data, on the limit as a resource. It is not repression, but awareness. It is not closure, but defense of the human.

Those who look down on Hungary should ask themselves: What kind of man do we want to educate? Who decides what is progress and what is obscurantism? What is the price we will pay, as a society, for having replaced truth with perception?

Today more than ever we need a free voice

Those who do not align themselves with the new anthropology are isolated, ridiculed, excluded. But it is precisely this cultural censorship that makes a response urgent: not everything is equivalent, not everything is fluid, not everything is negotiable. There is a truth that precedes us and guides us. Only by recognizing it can we be free.

Without roots, without ties, without truth about man, no Europe – and no authentic democracy – can last. In the face of ongoing ideological colonization, returning to the data of reality is not a sign of regression, but an act of civil and spiritual resistance . It is the first step to safeguard the human, before it is definitively reshaped according to inhuman logic.

The Church cannot avoid this challenge. It has an essential and prophetic task: to announce Christ once again as the Redeemer of man , the beginning and fulfillment of all true humanity. Only if the Church returns to being fully itself , that is, missionary, witness to the Gospel, educator in the meaning of life, will it be able to exercise its immense power: that of renewing society starting from the conversion of hearts to the love of Christ , the source of truth, freedom and justice.

Today's challenge can be faced and even the impossible can be accomplished, only by adhering to the Unforeseen made flesh - Christ - who placed himself in history as salvation and judgment, so that the truth never fails and the Redemption continues to operate in time.