Christian MP goes on trial in Finland for calling homosexuality a disorder
A Finnish Christian democrat MP and former minister of the interior went on trial on Monday for agitation against gay people over comments in which she described homosexuality as a developmental disorder and a sin.
In the unprecedented case over freedom of speech, the Helsinki district court must also decide whether citing the Bible can be considered a crime in some cases in Finland.
Paivi Rasanen, a medical doctor and MP for a small Christian-democratic party since 1995, called homosexuality “a developmental disorder” in an online opinion letter published in 2004 and “a shame and a sin” on Twitter in 2019, the prosecutor said.
In a programme broadcast by Finnish public radio station Yle in 2019, Rasanen described homosexuality as a form of “genetic degeneration”, the prosecutor added, charging her with three counts of agitation against gay people.
https://www.euronews.com/2022/01/25/us-f...court-lgbt
A Finnish Christian democrat MP and former minister of the interior went on trial on Monday for agitation against gay people over comments in which she described homosexuality as a developmental disorder and a sin.
In the unprecedented case over freedom of speech, the Helsinki district court must also decide whether citing the Bible can be considered a crime in some cases in Finland.
Paivi Rasanen, a medical doctor and MP for a small Christian-democratic party since 1995, called homosexuality “a developmental disorder” in an online opinion letter published in 2004 and “a shame and a sin” on Twitter in 2019, the prosecutor said.
In a programme broadcast by Finnish public radio station Yle in 2019, Rasanen described homosexuality as a form of “genetic degeneration”, the prosecutor added, charging her with three counts of agitation against gay people.
https://www.euronews.com/2022/01/25/us-f...court-lgbt
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
