Is homosexuality a sin?
That’s like asking whether adultery is a sin, or taking God’s name in vain. The Bible is quite clear on the matter, and for over two millennia, it was uncontroversial to believe that the sexual binary and method of human procreation made clear that God made men and women to be complementary.
Attitudes toward homosexual relations have changed over time, and obviously, there is a large contingent of Christians whose theological beliefs are at variance from the Bible, but it’s pretty hard to argue that a straightforward and conventional reading of Christian theology and the Bible supports the commonly held belief.
Räsänen and the Bishop were convicted (in a 3–2 split decision) for “making and keeping available” the 2004 pamphlet written for their church.
The Court acknowledged the content did not incite violence or hatred, yet still found them guilty.
It even went so far as to say that…
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Räsänen and the Bishop were convicted (in a 3–2 split decision) for “making and keeping available” the 2004 pamphlet written for their church.
The Court acknowledged the content did not incite violence or hatred, yet still found them guilty.
It even went so far as to say that the conduct in question was “not particularly serious,” while nonetheless finding them criminally liable.
The Court found them guilty for having “made available to the public and kept available to the public opinions that insult homosexuals as a group on the basis of their sexual orientation” in the decades old pamphlet.
But the Finnish Supreme Court has ruled that Swedish MP Päivi Räsänen, who was leader of the Christian Democrats and a former Minister of the Interior, is criminally guilty for having written and published a pamphlet in 2004 that argued that changing the Lutheran Church’s position on homosexuality contradicted God’s will.
Holding this belief has been ruled a “Crime Against Humanity.” Seriously.
HELSINKI (26 March 2026) – In a narrow 3–2 decision, the Finnish Supreme Court has found parliamentarian Päivi Räsänen guilty of “hate speech” on one charge relating to the expression of her beliefs on marriage and sexual ethics in a twenty-year-old church pamphlet. Räsänen has been criminally convicted for publishing the 2004 pamphlet for her church, alongside Lutheran Bishop Juhana Pohjola. The conviction is for “making and keeping available to the public a text that insults a group”. The Supreme Court unanimously acquitted Räsänen for her 2019 Bible verse tweet.
Räsänen was previously unanimously acquitted on all charges by two lower courts.
The long serving parliamentarian and former Minister of the Interior has been convicted for “hate speech” under a section of the Finnish criminal code titled “war crimes and crimes against humanity”. The medical doctor and grandmother of twelve was tried in early 2022 and again in 2023 for expressing her beliefs in a 2019 tweet, which included a Bible verse, in addition to a 2019 radio debate and 2004 church booklet.
After the prosecutor appealed for a third time, the Supreme Court, which heard the case in October 2025, has now ruled on two of the three original charges: concerning the tweet and the church booklet. The Supreme Court was not asked to rule on the radio debate as the prosecution did not appeal it, so Räsänen’s acquittal for the debate stands.
“War crimes and crimes against humanity.” For stating that men are men, women are women, and God intended their sexuality to be based on the complementarity of the two sexes.
She committed a crime, the Supreme Court said, because a homosexual might be offended by her arguments.
The Court found Räsänen and the Bishop guilty for having “made available to the public and kept available to the public opinions that insult homosexuals as a group on the basis of their sexual orientation”. It held that: “it must be taken into account that the text forming the basis for the conviction did not contain incitement to violence or comparable threat-like fomenting of hatred. The conduct is therefore not particularly serious in terms of the nature of the offense”.
The pamphlet was authored by Räsänen in 2004. The Court convicted her on the basis that: “after a preliminary investigation into the matter was launched in 2019, Räsänen continued to share the article on her own internet and social media pages in 2019 and 2020”.
With regard to the 2019 Bible verse tweet in which Räsänen questioned her church leadership’s decision to sponsor a Pride event, the Court unanimously held that it did not meet the criteria for the offence of incitement as she “justified her opinion by citing a biblical text” among other things.
The Supreme Court has imposed criminal fines of several thousands of Euros and ruled that the impugned statements must be “removed from public access and destroyed.”
She committed heresy, you see, so she must be punished and her pamphlet destroyed. The very idea must be wiped from existence.
The very fact that this case was brought in the first place should shock you. That a prosecutor can appeal an acquittal, not once but twice, is equally shocking to any American. And that the Supreme Court could rule that stating a basic fact about Christianity is a crime against humanity completes the trifecta of awfulness.
Now, imagine a prosecutor trying to convict a Muslim for saying that gays should be stoned to death, or that Muslims may rape Christian women.
It would never happen because no prosecutor would bring the case in the first place. Imagine the riots.
What about an atheist insulting a Christian for his faith? Yeah, no. Not gonna happen.
Finally, consider this: Räsänen’s beliefs are so common in Finland, or at least widely accepted enough, that she was elected to the Parliament after she wrote her pamphlet, became the leader of her mainstream party, became Minister of the Interior, and has been reelected even as this case has wound its way through the courts.
That’s how screwed up the legal system is in Finland, as in so much of Europe. Technocrats are substituting their judgment for that of the citizenry.
Räsänen has been branded a criminal because she believes in anodyne Christian theology. She is not calling for the stoning of gays or their exclusion from society. She doesn’t want homosexuality to be a criminal offense.
She just stated that the Lutheran Church should not say that homosexual relations are inconsistent with Biblical morality.
That’s now a crime. Because of course it is. It’s heresy.
Editor’s Note: Soros-backed prosecutors are hijacking President Trump’s agenda and insulting the will of the people.
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