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The Criminalization of Christianity in Finland
The American Spectator ^ | January 22, 2022 | George Neumayr

Posted on 05/13/2022 11:05:02 PM PDT by balch3

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To: balch3

The article is from January 22, 2022.

They were acquitted

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/finnish-prosecutor-decision-hostile-free-speech-christianity-rep-chip-roy-sean-nelson


21 posted on 05/14/2022 6:58:50 AM PDT by Cronos
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To: Charlemagne on the Fox
"You must have missed this from the May 2 by Joy Pullman in The Federalist: " "Finland’s top prosecutor announced Friday she will appeal a unanimous court decision rejecting her allegations of “hate speech” against a Christian politician for quoting the Bible on Twitter. "

Indeed.

22 posted on 05/14/2022 7:24:30 AM PDT by daniel1212 (Turn to the Lord Jesus as a damned+destitute sinner, trust Him to save U + be baptized + follow Him!)
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To: balch3

Now we know why the globohomos hate Russia so much.


23 posted on 05/14/2022 7:48:23 AM PDT by imabadboy99
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To: balch3

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)


24 posted on 05/14/2022 7:53:02 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: balch3

If they lived in “evil” Russia they would be free to practice their religion.


25 posted on 05/14/2022 8:05:18 AM PDT by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

The West is fighting to make the world safe for perverts.


26 posted on 05/14/2022 8:06:25 AM PDT by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: balch3

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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27 posted on 05/14/2022 8:24:51 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Monterrosa-24

***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.


28 posted on 05/14/2022 8:26:52 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: balch3

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29 posted on 05/14/2022 9:26:09 AM PDT by sauropod ("We put all our politicians in prison as soon as they are elected. Don’t you?" Why? "It saves time.”)
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To: thecodont
Calling sodomy evil is now a “hate crime” there?

Heck it is here too, just not a jailable offense yet, but it soon will be.

30 posted on 05/14/2022 9:38:02 AM PDT by itsahoot (Many Republicans are secretly Democrats, no Democrats are secretly Republicans. Dan Bongino.)
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To: itsahoot
Heck it is here too, just not a jailable offense yet, but it soon will be.

When Gavin Newsom becomes President.

31 posted on 05/14/2022 9:39:29 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: balch3

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”…


32 posted on 05/14/2022 10:44:18 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (If science can’t be questioned, it’s not science anymore, it’s propaganda. --Aaron Rodgers)
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To: balch3

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?


33 posted on 05/14/2022 3:33:00 PM PDT by fwdude (Every time I see someone voluntarily masked in public, I know I'm looking at a vaccinated person.)
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To: Cronos
They were acquitted

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.

34 posted on 05/14/2022 3:37:19 PM PDT by fwdude (Every time I see someone voluntarily masked in public, I know I'm looking at a vaccinated person.)
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To: Mark17; thecodont
"Calling sodomy evil is now a “hate crime” there?"

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.

35 posted on 05/14/2022 3:45:01 PM PDT by fwdude (Every time I see someone voluntarily masked in public, I know I'm looking at a vaccinated person.)
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To: thecodont
I’m still praying for the welfare of Barronelle Stutzman (Arlene’s Flowers) and Jack Phillips (Masterpiece CakeShop)

Roger that.

36 posted on 05/14/2022 5:39:33 PM PDT by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF pilot. USAF aviation runs in the family )
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To: fwdude
but the sodomites were allowed to be as disparaging as they wished against Christians, unfettered.

Storing up wrath, maybe?

37 posted on 05/14/2022 5:49:00 PM PDT by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF pilot. USAF aviation runs in the family )
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