Finnish Lawmaker Convicted on Hate Speech for 2004 Pamphlet Calling Homosexuality a 'Disorder'

Finnish lawmaker convicted on hate speech for 2004 pamphlet calling homosexuality a 'disorder'

Finnish MP Päivi Räsänen was convicted by the Supreme Court of Finland in a 3-2 ruling for a 2004 pamphlet calling homosexuality a developmental disorder.

Finland Convicts Former Minister for Defending the Bible in 2004

The Finnish Supreme Court charged Swedish MP Päivi Räsänen, who was leader of the Christian Democrats and a former minister of the interior, for having written and published a pamphlet in 2004 that argued that changing the Lutheran Church’s position on homosexuality contradicted God’s will. She was found guilty, not for the Bible verse per se, but for “insult.” [hate speech] Räsänen was convicted for calling homosexuality a “psychosexual develop…