Sv: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Christian hate speech arrest in Finland

​Thank you Gloria for posting the link below. I observe that Päivi Räsänen, a Christian politician and a member of Finish Parliament was only interrogated at the police headquarters in a hate speech investigation for sharing  Romans 1: 24-27 in the Bible on Social Media. Päivi Räsänen's action was premised on the participation of the Evangelical Church of Finland in the homosexual parade called Helsinki Pride in June 2019. Since June 2019, Päivi Räsänen remains interrogated and not prosecuted for hate speech and I am very certain it is going to remain as such for eternity. There was precedence, not in Finland but in, Sweden, her neighbouring country.

​In the Swedish off-shore island of Öland, a Pentecostal Church Pastor by name Åke Green, preached in a Borgholm Church in the presence of 50 people. From the pulpit, he asked his audience rhetorically, is homosexuality something one chooses? He answered self, yes. One chooses it. One is not born with it. Pastor Green continued, "Sexual abnormalities are a deep cancer torus on the body of the whole society. The Lord knows that sexually perverted people will even rape animals; By legalising partnership between man and man and between woman and woman, it is simply going to create catastrophe of unknown dimension. We see already the consequences of this. We see it genom AIDS which is spreading. Now not all AIDS afflicted are homosexuals, but it has originated on the ground of this once upon a time; It is a scandal to let innocent children be subjected to this torture. One assaults a child through adoption from parents, from mother and father, to two men or two women; and, Now   I must emphasize that not all homosexuals are paedophiles or perverted, but one opens the gate to the forbidden in violation to procreation order; Homosexuals are more inclined to have sex with children and animals. Concluding, Pastor Åke Green referred to Apostle Paul words in the Bible, Romans 1 : 26-27." The above was the sermon of Pastor Åke Green in a Borgholm Church on 20 July 2003 for which he was sentenced to six months jail on 29 June 2004 for hate speech against same sex practitioners by a Kalmar Magistrate Court. On appeal to the High Court, Pastor Green was discharge and acquitted of hate speech crime whereby the prosecuted appealed to the Swedish Supreme Court. On 29 November 2005, the Supreme Court decided that none of the speeches attributed to pastor Åke Green from the pulpit contains a direct threat or incitement to violence against the homosexuals. The Court referred to Article 9 and 10 of the European Convention that guarantees freedom of Religion and freedom of expression respectively under which the statements of Pastor Åke Green fell. Therefore, the Court concluded that the said speeches did not constitute hate speech.

​To the Christian believers, the Bible contains the words of God and his instructions to human beings. As long as the Bible is allowed to be in circulation all over the world, its contents must be cited freely without obstruction. The only option open to pro-Sodomites who want to propagate same-sex intercourse is to ban Bible and Quran from circulation. Some friendly homosexual Christans have hypocritically preached that Jesus loved everybody including the homosexuals, which was why he died on the cross to wipe away human sins. Yet when the Pharisees asked him if he had come to change the Mosaic Laws, he replied, "Think not that I have come to abolish the law and the prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfil them. Truly, I say to you, till Heaven and Earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot will change from the law until all is accomplished. Whoever changes one of the least of the commandments, and teaches men so shall be the least in the Kingdom of Heaven (Mathew 5 :17-19)" And in Luke 16 : 17, Jesus said, "Itis easier for heaven and earth to pass away, than for one dot of the law to become void." I have brought the injunctions of the Bible and Quran into the discussion because Professor Farooq A. Kperogi had inferred that the criminalization of homosexuality by the Nigerian Senate constitutes hate speech.

S. Kadiri 

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