Lawmaker Faces Jail for Anti-Gay Bible Tweet churchmilitant.com

A seventh-term Finnish parliamentarian is facing prison for tweeting verses from St. Paul’s letter to the Romans and expressing biblical views on homosexuality in a pamphlet and a talk show.

Finland’s prosecutor-general charged Dr. Päivi Räsänen with three counts of “incitement” against homosexuals, accusing her of breaching “the boundaries of freedom of speech and freedom of religion,” a press release from the National Prosecution Authority said Thursday.

Räsänen — a medical doctor who was Finland’s interior minister between 2011 and 2014 and a leader of the Christian Democrats who has served as a member of Finland’s Parliament since 1995 — revealed that she learned of the prosecutor’s charges on the phone…

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