2024-09-09 12:58:00
BUDAPEST. According to the news provided by DER STANDARD, Gergő Bese, 41 years old, was until recently a local priest and a star clerk of the Hungarian regime. For example, in January 2022, he was responsible for consecrating the new offices that Prime Minister Viktor Orbán took over in the former Carmelite monastery in Buda Castle. Before the elections, the Catholic priest, from the podium at his church in Dunavecse in the south of Hungary, asked the faithful to vote in favor of Orbán’s ruling party, Fidesz. He attended the regime’s “nomenklatura” events, such as Orbán’s annual address to the nation, wearing priestly robes.
Gergő Bese, Zsolt Semjén, Pál Schmitt and János Nagy in Karmelita on 6 October 2022.
Photo: Bese Gergely/Facebook
Pastor Bese was also a vocal representative of the homophobic masculinist campaigns of the Orbán government, which also denounced the LGBTIQ+ community, that is homosexual men. But it turned out that the Priest himself was homosexual. Extremely friendly and fluent in the language of young people, Bese presented himself as a traditionalist who was concerned that young people no longer had as many children and that their traditions were not organized around Christian holidays, which who was much happier in the past.
All this ended in an instant. Last Friday, it was revealed that Bese was leading a double life and had intimate sexual relations with men. The opposition portal valaszonline.huber reported that a dossier was circulating in Fidesz circles containing “evidence” of Bese’s – from a Catholic point of view – inappropriate behavior.
There are no criminal charges in the file and no underage partners are mentioned. But the apparent contradiction between Beses’ public persona and his private tendencies once again casts Orbán’s rhetoric describing Hungary as a “Christian fortress” in a false light. Many former Fidesz MPs recalled József Szájer trying to cross a ditch to escape the police at a gay party in Brussels, as any gathering at the time violated Covid rules.
Strict church rules
The bishop of the diocese of Kalocsa who was responsible for Bese announced on Friday – although he did not give a reason – that he had removed the priest, who was also the priest of Orban, from all priestly offices and duties. Pastor Bese himself responded in a statement on Saturday: “I was allowed, my purity was taken advantage of and I lost my mind. (…) I have violated my vows as a priest, I have sinned,” he wrote – without specifying what his sinful behavior is.
Orbán, the government leader who has long been a Protestant Calvinist Christian, told reporters on Saturday that he had nothing to do with services for the Beses government. Orbán said, “The affairs of the churches are the affairs of religious people. (…) I hope that the leadership of the Catholic Church will deal with this situation,” he said.
Hungary’s new opposition leader, Péter Magyar, wrote on his Facebook page that everyone in Hungary can live as they want, as long as they don’t harm anyone and don’t break the law, then said: “Yes The representatives of the Church are consciously subject to stricter standards. However, when it comes to Bese, many people are angry with this hypocrisy. Because, as a priest, it was the one who strengthened the discourse a state party based on the simplest of intelligences and hatred towards homosexuals and LGTBs, but it has now been revealed that it is homosexual. Why the two-faced hypocrisy?
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