Finnish Supreme Court to rule if quoting the Bible is hate speech

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The two Christians’ legal team described today’s Finnish Supreme Court arguments as different from their previous experiences in lower courts. The prosecutor, who has changed since the case began, didn’t ask a single question of the defendants today, and argued that even if Christian speech doesn’t cause demonstrable harm, the court should still criminalize it as “hate speech.”

“If the court would accept this argument, harmless speech would be criminalized,” said Rasanen and Pohjola’s lawyer, Matti Sankamo, who argued before the court today. He noted that it is a violation of the European Convention on Human Rights.

Punishments for violating this “hate crimes” provision of Finland’s “crimes against humanity” laws, said Alliance Defending Freedom International lawyer Paul Coleman, could include up to two years in prison. The prosecutor is seeking to have the internet wiped of Pohjola and Rasanen’s Christian speech and fines applied to Rasanen personally and to Pohjola’s charitable foundation that published her booklet titled, “Male and Female He [God] Created Them.”

“The way we see these hate speech cases working across Europe, the process becomes the punishment,” Coleman said. That “… creates a self-censorship potentially of many other people who are watching on and don’t want to go through a seven-year process for a tweet and decide not to share their opinions.”

https://thefederalist.com/2025/10/30/nato-members-top-court-considers-whether-saying-men-and-women-are-different-is-a-war-crime/


You just know lefty here is taking notes.

[SVPete]

Yet another reason for Progs to hate the Alliance Defending Freedom. They keep defending people too reprehensible to deserve defending ... and often winning those deplorables' cases.

Since Finland has a state church, nominally Lutheran, this could careen into weird.