{"id":1450661,"date":"2024-01-15T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-15T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1450661"},"modified":"2024-01-15T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2024-01-15T14:00:00","slug":"finnish-politician-rasanen-again-facing-demands-for-prosecution-over-quoting-bible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/finnish-politician-rasanen-again-facing-demands-for-prosecution-over-quoting-bible\/1450661\/","title":{"rendered":"Finnish Politician R\u00e4s\u00e4nen Again Facing Demands For Prosecution Over Quoting Bible"},"content":{"rendered":"

Finnish Politician R\u00e4s\u00e4nen Again Facing Demands For Prosecution Over Quoting Bible<\/span><\/p>\n

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Authored by Jonathan Turley,<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Senior Finnish politician P\u00e4ivi R\u00e4s\u00e4nen has been acquitted twice<\/strong> after the Finnish government prosecuted her for quoting the Bible.<\/p>\n

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Now, however, the Finish Public Prosecutor is seeking to appeal the November 2023 decision supporting her faith and free speech.<\/p>\n

Even with the widespread attacks on free speech across Europe, Finland is now a standout for its intolerance and extremism in defining opposing views \u201chate speech.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

We have\u00a0previously<\/a>\u00a0followed the case and the chilling effort to criminalize religious speech as hate speech. It is equally troubling to see a leading politician subjected to such investigation and prosecution, sending a chilling message to all citizens that their own free speech will not be tolerated in Finland.<\/p>\n

R\u00e4s\u00e4nen is a long-standing member of Parliament, former leader of the Finnish Christian Democrats Party, and former national interior minister. She is also a physician and mother of five who is highly critical of homosexuality, which she describes as a \u201cdisorder of psychosexual development.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

In 2019, she questioned her church\u2019s sponsorship of an LGBT pride event.<\/p>\n

On June 17th of that year, she proceeded to post a statement on\u00a0Twitter<\/a>\u00a0questioning how the sponsorship was compatible with the Bible, linking to a photograph of a biblical passage,\u00a0Romans 1:24-27<\/a>, on\u00a0Instagram<\/a>. She also posted the text and image on\u00a0Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n

She later\u00a0said<\/a>\u00a0that \u201c[t]he purpose [of] my tweet was in no way to insult sexual minorities. My criticism was aimed at the leadership of the church.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

She was charged under a law concerning \u201cwar crimes and crimes against humanity.\u201d<\/p>\n

In 2022, the District Court of Helsinki\u00a0unanimously acquitted R\u00e4s\u00e4nen on the hate speech charges<\/a>\u00a0and held that \u201cit is not for the district court to interpret biblical concepts.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Rather than rethink its attack on free speech, the Finnish government then appealed to the Helsinki Court of Appeal.<\/p>\n

The government again lost unanimously.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Now the Public Prosecutor is appealing to the Supreme Court in what seems more like a blind rage than reasoned lawyering.<\/p>\n

It is a glimpse of the slippery slope that awaits this country if our own anti-free speech movement takes hold.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nMon, 01\/15\/2024 – 04:00<\/span><\/p>\n

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