BIBLE AS “HATE SPEECH” CASE FAILS IN FINLAND
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(Lyle Shelton) Good news for freedom of religion.
An LGBTIQA+ activist attempt to criminalize people for quoting the Bible failed in Finland today.
Finnish Parliamentarian Päivi Räsänen and Lutheran Bishop Juhana Pohjola won their free speech case after they quoted scripture verses and Christian teaching about sex and gender.
The Helsinki District Court threw out the “hate speech” charges against them, saying that “it is not for the district court to interpret biblical concepts.”
Räsänen had been sued for quoting the Apostle Paul on Twitter.
Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves, because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen. For this reason, God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature; and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error. – Romans 1:24-27
The 2019 Tweet was rebuking her own Lutheran Church leadership for supporting a homosexual pride week.
It sparked a police investigation which also saw her charged for comments in a 2004 church pamphlet and for comments in a 2019 radio interview.
According to the pair’s legal team, Alliance Defending Freedom International, her co-accused, Bishop Pohjola….
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The court correctly acknowledged the fact that it can neither change nor outlaw God’s Word.