PNW - A Christian politician in Finland will face a court process for speaking openly about her views on homosexuality and the Bible.
Päivi Räsänen, a medical doctor who was Finland's Interior Minister between 2011 and 2014 and a leader of the Christian Democrats, has been charged with three hate crimes against homosexuals.
The General Prosecutor of Finland has confirmed that, after an investigation of nearly 2 years, enough evidence was collected to open a penal process. Since 2019, Räsänen has been interrogated by the police in three different occasions.
The politician will have to defend herself in courts for social media posts in which she quoted Roman 1:24-27 to criticise the participation of the Finnish Lutheran Church (of which she is a member) in the 2019 LGBT Pride festivals, for the content of a booklet about Bible and sexuality titled "Male and Female He Created them" published in 2004, and her words in a radio talk show in the Finnish Public Broadcasting System, where she was invited to speak about the issue "What would Jesus think about homosexuals?".
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