ADF International announced on X that Finland’s Supreme Court will hear Päivi Räsänen’s case on October 30th, seven years after she first faced criminal charges for tweeting a Bible verse in 2019.
🚨 BREAKING: Päivi Räsänen’s case is going to the Finnish Supreme Court.
Räsänen faces criminal charges for tweeting a Bible verse in 2019.
Previously acquitted twice, her case now enters its 7th year of legal battle and will be heard Oct. 30th.
Räsänen, a medical doctor and active parliamentarian, was first investigated in 2019 for a tweet that questioned the involvement of the Lutheran Church in a Helsinki LGBT ‘Pride’ event, with reference to the Bible’s Book of Romans, chapter 1, verses 24-27: “The men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.”
Attacked by the progressive establishment of Finland, and taken to court, Räsänen has refused to apologize for her religious convictions.
As we reported, Räsänen, who is also a former interior minister, has already been acquitted twice, and now she is facing what is perhaps the last in a long legal battle that has sparked international attention due to concerns about free speech and religious expression.
Rebeka Kis is a fifth-year law student at the University of Pécs. Her main interests are politics and history, with experience in the EU’s day-to-day activities gained as an intern with the Foundation for a Civic Hungary at the European Parliament.
