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P\u00e4ivi R\u00e4s\u00e4nen and Bishop Juhana Pohjola stood trial in Helsinki, Finland, on 24 January.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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\u00ab\u00a0Alongside her bishop, Finnish Member of Parliament P\u00e4ivi R\u00e4s\u00e4nen is standing criminal trial for expressing Christian beliefs on marriage and sexuality.<\/p>

The case began as too many of today\u2019s assaults on free speech do: with a tweet. R\u00e4s\u00e4nen is a member of the Lutheran state church. When she discovered that her church had become an official sponsor of the Pride parade in 2019, she questioned their decision by posting a picture of a Bible verse.<\/p>

Then the police knocked on her door.<\/p>

Since she was charged with hate speech, her prosecutors have unearthed more \u201cevidence\u201d of her misdeeds. They clipped a sound bite from a 2019 radio interview and dug up a church pamphlet she authored almost twenty years ago. For publishing this pamphlet for his congregation, Bishop Juhana Pohjola also faces trial,\u00a0\u00bb writes Sofia H\u00f6rder, Communications Officer for ADF International in The Critic<\/a>.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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\u201cOnce we are no longer free to tweet unpopular opinions \u2014 or even unpopular Bible verses \u2014 we will find ourselves living in an Orwellian future…\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":2574,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"give_campaign_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[25,36,219,238],"class_list":["post-3196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-commentary","tag-free-speech","tag-paivi","tag-paul-coleman","tag-sofia-horder"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nOn trial for a Bible tweet - ADF International<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/adfinternational.org\/fr\/commentary\/on-trial-for-a-bible-tweet\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"fr_FR\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"On trial for a Bible tweet\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"\u201cOnce we are no longer free to tweet unpopular opinions \u2014 or even unpopular Bible verses \u2014 we will find ourselves living in an Orwellian future..."\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/adfinternational.org\/commentary\/on-trial-for-a-bible-tweet\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"ADF International\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/facebook.com\/adfinternational\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-01-26T14:14:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-02-16T09:34:33+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/adfinternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/ADF-Finland-Web-24.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"2500\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1667\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Philipp Bues\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@adfintl\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@adfintl\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"\u00c9crit par\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Philipp Bues\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Dur\u00e9e de lecture estim\u00e9e\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/adfinternational.org\\\/commentary\\\/on-trial-for-a-bible-tweet#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/adfinternational.org\\\/commentary\\\/on-trial-for-a-bible-tweet\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Philipp Bues\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/adfinternational.org\\\/fr\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/6b776fc8535453c6aad8a6f9d78e6141\"},\"headline\":\"On trial for a Bible tweet\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-01-26T14:14:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-02-16T09:34:33+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/adfinternational.org\\\/commentary\\\/on-trial-for-a-bible-tweet\"},\"wordCount\":185,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/adfinternational.org\\\/fr\\\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/adfinternational.org\\\/commentary\\\/on-trial-for-a-bible-tweet#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/adfinternational.org\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2021\\\/12\\\/ADF-Finland-Web-24.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"free speech\",\"Paivi\",\"Paul Coleman\",\"Sofia H\u00f6rder\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Commentary\"],\"inLanguage\":\"fr-FR\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/adfinternational.org\\\/commentary\\\/on-trial-for-a-bible-tweet\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/adfinternational.org\\\/commentary\\\/on-trial-for-a-bible-tweet\",\"name\":\"On trial for a Bible tweet - 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