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…

Take a lesson from the Finnish Supreme Court

Recently the Washington Post editorial board weighed in against the Finnish Supreme Court conviction of MP Päivi Räsänen over hate speech. The judgment stated that assertions in a pamphlet distributed by Räsänen — describing homosexuality as a disorder in psychosexual…