The following is an excerpt of an article by Reformed Church pastor László Köntös, originally published on Meg van írva.

There is a constantly expressed demand that churches participate in elevating the LGBTQ+ ideology to a universal norm.

There is no doubt that the culture war taking place in the Western world between liberalism and conservatism has left its mark on Christianity as well, causing a whole series of church schisms. In this process, the old denominational fault lines are fading, and overriding the previous divisions, whereby a new schism scheme is about to be created within the Christian Church, which puts Christians belonging to different historical denominations into the liberal (‘progressive’) and conservative (‘orthodox’ or ‘fundamentalist’) camps. It seems that the process is unstoppable and irreversible now, and that there is no western religious scheme anymore, including Catholicism, that could escape the influence of this ideological struggle.

If the root cause of the dispute leading to schisms or close-to-schisms had to be described in one single point, we would most likely have to mention the stunning gaining ground of the indefinable LGBTQ+ lobby in recent times, and its growing influence on Western thinking. One of the prominent targets of this expansion is Christianity itself—there is a constantly expressed demand that churches participate in elevating LGBTQ+ ideology to a universal norm. This intention is quite effective: hardly a week passes by without news breaking that some church leader, in some cases even contradicting the official teaching of their own church, publicly endorses the LGBTQ+ ideology. This process has already led to some church schisms—disunity over the gender issue plagues the Western Protestant world, but apparently the Catholic Church is now also threatened by a close-to-schism situation (as is the case of Catholics in Germany).

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