www.christianpost.com By Jon Brown
Finnish parliamentarian Päivi Räsänen announced Thursday that she is appealing to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) after the Supreme Court of Finland found her guilty of hate speech in March for a 22-year-old pamphlet condemning homosexuality.
“The failure of the Finnish Supreme Court to uphold freedom of speech has set a dangerous precedent in my country and across Europe. I feel it is my duty to appeal this decision, to reinstate respect for the basic human right that all are free to peacefully express their views in the public square,” Räsänen said, according to a press release from the nonprofit legal group Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) International.
Räsänen, who led Finland’s Christian Democratic Party from 2004 to 2015 and served as the country’s interior minister from 2011 to 2015, was convicted on March 26 in a slim 3-2 ruling against her under Chapter 11 of the Finnish Penal Code, which deals with “agitation against a minority group.”
The high court ruled that because Räsänen’s pamphlet from 2004 argued that homosexuality is intrinsically disordered, it could be seen to “insult homosexuals as a group on the basis of their sexual orientation…
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