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Swedish pastor sentenced to one month's jail for offending homosexuals
Ecumenical News International ^
| June 30, 2004
Posted on 07/02/2004 1:09:12 PM PDT by lady lawyer
Stockholm (ENI). A Swedish court has sentenced a pastor belonging to the Pentecostal movement in Sweden, Ake Green, to a month in prison, under a law against incitement, after he was found guilty of having offended homosexuals in a sermon.
Soren Andersson, the president of the Swedish federation for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights (RFSL), said on hearing the sentence that religious freedom could never be used as a reason to offend people. "Therefore," he told journalists, "I cannot regard the sentence as an act of interference with freedom of religion."
During a sermon in 2003, Green described homosexuality as "abnormal, a horrible cancerous tumour in the body of society".
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This is where "hate crimes" statutes are heading. There are also provisions in the International Criminal Court statute that are designed to lead to the same outcome. Religious people could be arrested, not just for speaking out against homosexuality, abortion, or other Leftist causes, they could be arrested for refusing to perform homosexual marriages, or for making any religious distinction among people based on traditional ideas about morality.
To: lady lawyer
Welcome to the new communism ... Homosexuality is a religion even more dangerous than Islam.
To: lady lawyer
Pastor Green can borrow my tag line.
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posted on
07/02/2004 1:12:10 PM PDT
by
Commander8
(Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth? Galatians 4:16)
To: lady lawyer
Prophecy says it will be.
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posted on
07/02/2004 1:12:50 PM PDT
by
OSHA
(I keep pitchin' 'em and he keeps missin' 'em....~Foghorn Leghorn)
To: ScaniaBoy
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posted on
07/02/2004 1:13:50 PM PDT
by
MadIvan
(Ronald Reagan - proof positive that one man can change the world.)
To: lady lawyer
Coming soon to America....
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posted on
07/02/2004 1:14:01 PM PDT
by
Mulder
(To be born free is an accident,to live free is your duty,to die free is your obligation. Wm. Coulter)
To: lady lawyer
religious freedom could never be used as a reason to offend peopleThis is basically a way of saying that there is no religious freedom in Sweden. Any religious beliefs are bound to offend somebody who doesn't believe them. The gay activists truly are thought police fascists!
To: lady lawyer
The Thought Police are in Sweden. How long before they arrive on our shores?
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posted on
07/02/2004 1:15:32 PM PDT
by
Trampled by Lambs
("Making Al Gore regret inventing the internet, one post at a time")
To: lady lawyer
Let me know when a homosexual activist is jailed for offending a straight person.
Chances are I will be long dead before it happens, if ever.
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posted on
07/02/2004 1:17:01 PM PDT
by
Phantom Lord
(Distributor of Pain, Your Loss Becomes My Gain)
To: lady lawyer
This will happen here if we let it.
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posted on
07/02/2004 1:17:17 PM PDT
by
SoDak
To: lady lawyer
So we lost World War II after all, eh?
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posted on
07/02/2004 1:18:08 PM PDT
by
Mr Ramsbotham
("This house is sho' gone crazy!")
To: SoDak
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posted on
07/02/2004 1:18:34 PM PDT
by
Ciexyz
("FR, best viewed with a budgie on hand")
To: Trampled by Lambs
They are already here. Too bad we can't get the Muzzies to provide a solution to the Homosexual Question instead of the Jewish one. Since Jewish people aren't a problem, but homosexuals are.
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posted on
07/02/2004 1:19:17 PM PDT
by
johnb838
(When I hear "Allahu Akhbar" it means somebody is about to die.)
To: Mr Ramsbotham
if we had lost WWII there would be no homosexuals in Europe at all. A fact the eurorats should remember sometime. Especially the gay ones.
To: glennherman
No, the "pink" gays would be gone, it was the "leather" gays that were putting them to sleep.
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posted on
07/02/2004 1:21:18 PM PDT
by
johnb838
(When I hear "Allahu Akhbar" it means somebody is about to die.)
To: glennherman
All animals practice toleration but some animals are more tolerant than others.
To: lady lawyer
Ake Green should have said, your honor, if homosexuality were normal, none of us would be here.
To: lady lawyer
All of this and we somehow can't call the horrendus Carr murders in Wichita a hate crime. What a load of poop.
To: lady lawyer
"Blessed are those who have been persecuted for the sake of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven."
To: lady lawyer
Europe is no better than the Arab world when it comes to individual rights.
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