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Former Finnish Interior Minister Faces Another Trial Over Posting Bible Verses, Despite Acquittal
Breitbart ^ | 1/13/24 | Oliver JJ Lane

Posted on 01/15/2024 3:25:14 PM PST by Roman_War_Criminal

Senior Finnish politician Päivi Räsänen is facing being hauled through the courts again over “homophobic” Tweets and writings going back 20 years, despite having been acquitted in the case twice already.

The Finnish Public Prosecutor is appealing a November 2023 court decision that Päivi Räsänen, a long-serving member of Parliament, party leader, and former national interior minister was exercising free speech when she quoted the bible and discussed homosexuality on several occasions from 2004 to 2019. Räsänen is the former leader of the Finnish Christian Democrats Party and holds orthodox views on the issue, having described homosexuality as a “disorder of psychosexual development” in the past and quoted verses from St. Paul’s letter to the Romans on Instagram.

The District Court of Helsinki has already acquitted Räsänen unanimously on the hate speech charges in 2022, which were filed under the part of Finland’s criminal code which deals with “war crimes and crimes against humanity”, ruling “it is not for the district court to interpret biblical concepts”. This was appealed, taking it to the Helsinki Court of Appeal which again dismissed the case unanimously, and on the same grounds, in November of last year.

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TOPICS: Current Events; General Discusssion; Religion & Culture; Religion & Politics
KEYWORDS: antichristianity; finland; persecution; pivirsnen

1 posted on 01/15/2024 3:25:14 PM PST by Roman_War_Criminal
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

Religious persecution is grounds for asylum, unlike the hoards currently pouring over our border.

This dude should apply!


2 posted on 01/15/2024 3:27:44 PM PST by TonyinLA (I don't have sufficient information to formulate a reasoned opinion said no lefty ever.)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

He’s finnished.


3 posted on 01/15/2024 3:46:29 PM PST by Jyotishi (Seeking the truth, a fact at a time.)
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To: TonyinLA

This is what NATO wants to defend. Go figure.


4 posted on 01/15/2024 3:52:29 PM PST by Alberta's Child (If something in government doesn’t make sense, you can be sure it makes dollars.)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal
(when she quoted the bible)

The spirit of antichrist hates hearing the Word of God. Preparing the world 🌎🌍 for the coming Man of Sin. Running out of time to share the Word of God before the Leftists shut it down. On Social Media they already started.

2nd Thessalonians 2:8-12 - King James Version

8 And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:

9 Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,

10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:

12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.)







5 posted on 01/15/2024 3:58:28 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, y bought, they sold ......)
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To: TonyinLA

He’s Christian. That doesn’t count.


6 posted on 01/15/2024 4:16:13 PM PST by AndyJackson
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

Europe is getting EXACTLY what they deserve.


7 posted on 01/15/2024 4:29:42 PM PST by BobL (Trump gets my vote, even if I have to write him in; Millions of others will do the same)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

And, this is the godless, depraved country that is the latest member of NATO.


8 posted on 01/15/2024 4:48:23 PM PST by Kazan
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

Global communism is ascendant...

Tyranny all around the globe has never been so complete...IMHO...


9 posted on 01/15/2024 4:55:07 PM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is the next Sam Adams when we so desperately need him)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

Thank you for this article. It helps the ecclesia keep our ear to the tracks for what’s coming.


10 posted on 01/15/2024 4:59:47 PM PST by SheepWhisperer (Get involved with, or start a home fellowship group. It will be the final church. ACTS 2:42-47)
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To: Alberta's Child

Exactly !

Another “Democracy” that every country in NATO is supposed to go to war to defend.


11 posted on 01/15/2024 5:21:31 PM PST by Reverend Wright ( Everything touched by progressives, dies !)
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To: TonyinLA
This dude should apply!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%A4ivi_R%C3%A4s%C3%A4nen.

She's a woman.

12 posted on 01/15/2024 5:55:21 PM PST by Lee N. Field (I beat wasp nests with a stick for fun.)
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