Dr Päivi Räsänen, a medic and former Minister of the Interior, along with Bishop Juhana Pohjola of the Evangelical Lutheran Mission Diocese of Finland, had been charged with hate speech for sharing her views on marriage and sexual ethics in a 2019 tweet in which she had described homosexuality as “a shame and a sin”, in a radio debate in 2019 in which she had categorised it as a “genetic degeneration” and in a pamphlet published in 2004.… [read post]