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Finnish Government Is Calling The Bible “Hate Speech”


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The Word of God is on trial in Finland.

A Finnish Member of Parliament is facing hate speech charges after calling homosexuality a sin and disorder.

MP Paivi Rasanen is pleading non-guilty to four charges of “inciting violence against a minority group” after condemning same sex marriage in several writings and tv show appearances.

Rasanen in 2019 tweeted out scriptures which condemned same sex marriage but now she is facing charges for those same tweets.

So, now not only is Rasanen’s freedom of speech under fire but the Word of God is too.

France 24 News had more on the story:

Rasanen described homosexuality as a “psychosexual developmental disorder” and said that homosexual people are “dysfunctional”.

One charge related to a June 2019 tweet in which the long-time parliamentarian criticised the Finnish Lutheran church for partnering with that year’s Pride celebrations, accusing the organisation of “elevating shame and sin to a subject of pride”.

The post was accompanied by a photo of a New Testament passage which described homosexual acts as “shameful” and “unnatural”.

“The statement is an affront to the equality and dignity of homosexuals and is likely to provoke contempt, intolerance and even hatred towards homosexuals,” prosecution documents seen by AFP said.

Fox News got the scoop too:

Police are investigating a Christian politician in Finland for an alleged “hate crime” because she shared a Bible verse on Facebook to criticize a national church that participated in LGBT Pride festivities.

In the post, congresswoman Päivi Räsänen, a Christian Democrat, criticized the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland for participating in the Helsinki LGBT Pride events in June. Her criticism was alongside a picture of Romans 1:24-27  that describes same-sex relationships as “shameful.”

Her post made Räsänen the subject of a pretrial investigation by the Finnish Police for a suspected incitement against sexual and gender minorities.

“The pre-trial investigations have not yet been completed. Police will provide more details once the investigations have been completed or presented to a prosecutor for consideration of charges,” the Helsinki Police Department officer in charge of the investigation told the Helsinki Times.

Here is the scripture that is deemed “hate speech”, Romans 1:24-27 reads:



 

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