LGBTIQ people in the crosshairs of aggressive right-wing populist and religious fundamentalist attacks and criticism Alarm bells ringing in Hungary

Abstract

Right-wing populist conception of gender and corresponding societal models, which have now been enshrined in Hungary’s constitution, are based on and justified with religious scriptural reasoning instead of factual political arguments. When these normalised gender identities become “cultural requirements for personhood” (Butler, own translation), LGBTIQ people are marginalised from society and deprived of their human dignity. Thus, “a particular notion of gender identity is asserted as the precondition for legitimate and non-defective personhood” (Krannich, own translation). An enlightened theology has to reject such theistic-theocratic temptations in defence of constitutional, pluralist democracy and to protect the victimised against human rights abuses, violence and injustice.