Posted on 05/13/2022 11:05:02 PM PDT by balch3
In a foreshadowing of America’s future under coercive secularism, a Finnish politician and Finnish bishop will go on criminal trial next week for merely upholding historic Christian teaching on sexual morality. The trial is a telling measure of the erosion of Christianity in Europe. Juhana Pohjola, a Lutheran bishop, and Päivi Räsänen, a member of Finland’s Parliament, stand accused of an act increasingly forbidden in the de-Christianized West: quoting the Bible. “According to the nation’s top prosecutor, the two people are accused of violating the equality and dignity of LGBT people,” reports Christianity Today. Simply quoting the Bible’s condemnation of sexual immorality is now sufficient to qualify as a “hate crime” in Finland. What Christianity has always taught — hate the sin, but love the sinner — is no longer permissible in the eyes of Finnish authorities. They say that Pohjola and Räsänen are guilty of “ethnic agitation” — an absurdly vague charge they would never dream of applying to members of any other religion besides Christianity.
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The article is from January 22, 2022.
They were acquitted
Indeed.
Now we know why the globohomos hate Russia so much.
A list of countries that declared war on Finland during World War II:
1939-11-30 Soviet Union
1941-12-05 United Kingdom
1941-12-07 Canada
1941-12-07 Australia
1941-12-07 New Zealand
1941-12–16 Czechoslovakia (government-in-exile)
1944-09-15 Nazi Germany (after Finland switched sides)
If they lived in “evil” Russia they would be free to practice their religion.
The West is fighting to make the world safe for perverts.
In the 1940s we knew the arm and bayonet were “the enemy”.
In today’s world “the enemy” is the bible being stabbed.
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***negative descriptions of homosexual behavior can get one fired in America.***
OR get you 30 days in Facebook jail. Zuck loves his trannies and queers.
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Heck it is here too, just not a jailable offense yet, but it soon will be.
When Gavin Newsom becomes President.
This case in Finland was decided last week of March:
https://unherd.com/thepost/the-overton-window-for-christian-beliefs-is-narrowing/
Räsänen was charged for [a] tweet, and also for backing biblical teaching on marriage and sexuality in a radio interview. Her third strike was a pamphlet she had written for her church in 2004 titled…‘Male and Female He Created Them’. Bishop Juhana Pohjola was tried for having published the pamphlet.
Thankfully, the Court in Helsinki struck down the case on Wednesday… But for voicing opinions contrary to the orthodoxies of the day, the pair were prosecuted for ‘ethnic agitation’, a charge under the section of ‘war crimes and crimes against humanity’ in the Finnish criminal code. …under a 2011 amendment, the charge bans the ‘[public] expression of opinion or another message where a certain group is threatened, defamed or insulted’. Maximum penalty — two years imprisonment.
The trial did not just put Christians in the dock, but Christianity itself. The prosecutor quoted heavily from the Bible and grilled both parties on the theology of ‘love the sinner, hate the sin’. The word “sin”, she claimed — used over 400 times in scripture and central to the Christian concept of forgiveness — could itself be “harmful”. It didn’t matter that Päivi had said publicly that all were sinners, including herself. This was against the principle of “equality”, by the prosecutor’s own measure.
Thankfully, common sense won the day. The pair were acquitted of all charges. In a triumph for religious freedom, the court confirmed unanimously that it wasn’t for them “to interpret biblical concepts”. Recognising that while some may object to Räsänen’s statements, it concluded “there must be an overriding social reason for interfering with and restricting freedom of expression”…
Okay, I thought another former parliament member was recently exonerated by a court for just this same charge. Did the court’s verdict not stick?
But the prosecutors are APPEALING the case, an option that is possible in that perverted justice system.
An acquittal is never final until Satan wins.
Isn’t it already a hate crime in America?
Indeed, speaking the truth about homosexuality and sex perverions is borderline "blaspheme" in the U.S. as early as 13 years ago. When my large Texas city was going through the debate of mandating "anti-discrimination" against "transgender" freaks in 2009, I attended the city council meeting where the vote was to be taken. It was attended by a circus of snipping, sneering, cross-dressing freaks. The Democrat mayor signaled that NO untoward testimony by speakers from the public would be allowed, but the sodomites were allowed to be as disparaging as they wished against Christians, unfettered. The motion passed, 5-4.
Roger that.
Storing up wrath, maybe?
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