Former US Vice President Mike Pence, in his address to the 4th Demographic Summit in Budapest on Thursday, commended Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s vision of family policy. “I want to applaud Prime Minister Orbán for choosing to make family the central focus of Hungary’s government policy,” Pence told the summit.
“The Western world is beset by one crisis after another,” Pence said, noting the coronavirus pandemic and its ongoing economic impact as well as a “crisis of confidence” in traditional values, institutions and leadership. The former vice president said yet another crisis was “the erosion of the nuclear family marked by declining marriage rates, rising divorce,
widespread abortion and plummeting birth rates”.
“The leaders of government who are gathered here, and the leaders of faith, know strong families make strong communities, and strong communities make strong nations,” he said. “For our civilisation to prosper, if we’re to pass on the rights and the freedoms and the values that we cherish to the next generation, our highest priority must be to preserve, renew and strengthen the families upon which our nation and our civilisations have been built.”
Pence said there was a consensus among the global elite that “the institution of the family is in many ways an anachronism, outdated and even unnecessary”.
“We are so much as told that the family is secondary to the state and that the demands of raising and educating children must be met with the ever growing reach of government, supplanting the role and the primacy of parents and families from cradle to grave,” he said.
But the nations of central and eastern Europe “have heard these empty utopian promises before”, Pence said. They know what it is like to “live under the oppressive fist of progressive tyranny with its unworkable social experiments and with thought police driving their agenda against the common sense and common values of the people,” he added.
“Hungary and all the nations of the former Soviet bloc taught the world:
if you want freedom, take pride in your country.
If you want democracy, defend sovereignty,” Pence said.
“From where I stand I see the people of central and eastern Europe rejecting the modern left’s vision of a post-Christian, post-national, post-family world,” he said, adding that this was the same vision former US President Donald Trump’s administration had embraced. “It’s for a world of strong, sovereign, independent nations built on thriving, happy and healthy families.”
He said the Trump administration had similar goals and enacted like-minded policies to Hungary that centred on the restoration of middle-class American families. “I have long believed that a society can be judged by how it deals with its most vulnerable, with its youth, its aged and its infirm and the unborn,” he said. He called abortion an “unspeakable tragedy, an unspeakable loss … for humanity”. Pence said the Trump administration had “stood without apology for the sanctity of human life”, cutting funding for abortion.
“Here in Hungary I’m told that the number of abortions annually has been reduced by 30 percent in recent years,”
he said. Citing the words of Pope Francis, Pence said the welfare of the family was decisive for the future of the world, adding that “we must lead our nations and lead the world back to putting family first.” The former vice president said Hungary and other countries in the region had shown that the right leadership and the right solutions could succeed in reversing population decline.
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Well said Vice President Pence.
Read the Life of this individual – Mike Pence.
In reading it – the core values of his life throughout the various positions he has held in American Politics – Lawyer, the 50th Govenor of Indiana, Member of the House of Representatives – then his “infamous” time – as the 48th Vice-President of The United States of America.
Pence is a Right of Right – Republican
Pence – supportive of the “infamous” – Donald J.Trump in the time of his cataclysmic disasterous time in office as President of the United States of America, being voted out – by the correct use and application of a Democratic voting system, but not before – he and Trump – had left America – in a SHAMBLES – the loss of lives in excess of 500.000 – through the Failings of there Novel Coronavirus Policies.
Pence – in History will not be written as an individual – who “rocked the boat” – but as a Politican, who was “rubbery” – never establishing nor putting himself in Political postions and arguements – that changed America nor The Republican Party.
Pence – never and will never have an inpact on the World stage – Politically and “other” – from what are the core values that drives his Right of Right – Political Republican Values.
Pence – read History – his support of Fidesz was never in doubt – driven by his deep rooted core and religious values.
Pence is a complex individual – rooted in – not main stream historical and traditional Christian Dogma – nor Values – which adds to the complexities of his character – his Political values – Ideas and Philosophy.
Pence – by the “support” of the Fidesz Party – was a cheap investment – to continue – the on-going “brawl – that mounts relating to the Family Value and “other” Policy.
Pence – was never going to “rock the boat” – be a questioner nor disagreeing with the Fidesz Political Postion – but an Advocate – through the core of him – what makes and is Him.
History – read on Pence which proves again – History never Lies.
I agree with every word of VP Mike Pence but I find it hard to forgive him letting down President Trump, the best US President America ever had, when President Trump needed him most.
I liked US AG Sessions also until he let down President Trump.
Can a life of good works and good intentions destroyed by a single act of betrayal? It depends on a lot of things.
Thank you President Trump!
Thank God for letting us have a leader like President Trump who gave us hope and new pride in America.
— former Hungarian freedom fighter
— former US serviceman
— Trump voter and proud American
The communist democrats colluded with communist China to steal the election because President Trump was winning against their predatory trading practices.
Xí’s lapdog senile Joe Biden will never be a legitimate President.
Votes must be earned, NOT STOLEN
He ain’t Vice President no more 😉
MVT, MAGA and István: the deluded and brainwashed who thought a narcissistic president was the best America ever had. Did any of you ingest bleach like he suggested? So István maintains China interfered with the elections, so if Fidesz stays in power next year, will that be interference from China too …….?
Donald J Trump
The largest number of illegal aliens in the history of our Country are pouring in by the millions. They are totally unchecked and unvetted, can do whatever they want, and go wherever they want. Our Country is rapidly becoming a cesspool of humanity. Murderers, drug dealers, and criminals of all shapes and sizes are a big part of this massive migration. Tens of thousands of people are coming from Haiti, and many now from countries in Africa, even more so now than South America. Nothing is done and the corrupt Mainstream Media is giving almost no attention to what will be perhaps the greatest Crisis in the history of our Country. This is not just a Border Crisis, this is a Crisis Crisis. God Bless America!
MVT in the US, ex presidents are still referred by their title, e.g. President Bush, President Clinton, President Obama. The same rule applies to vice presidents. Therefore, it is appropriate to address Mr. Pence as Vice President Pence. This is common knowledge, wonder why some people did not realize this? It must be brainwashing by leftwing socialist media.
Etiquette says the current vice president is addressed orally as Mr. Vice President and referred to as The Vice President. Traditionally being vice president is a one-person-at-a-time office and former officials don’t continue to be so addressed when they leave office. You must get your information from the brainwashing right wing media.