“A man who was convicted for abusing children. He sent me messages. Letters where he threatened my children.”
A Finnish Member of Parliament and medical doctor, Päivi Räsänen, has paid a high price she for defending Scripture. In addition to a paedophile threatening her children, a bomb bomb went off in her mailbox and leftist thugs have attempted to gain entrance into her home.
Räsänen, a mother of five and grandmother of 12, has battled “hate speech” charges for many years. It began with her 2004 pamphlet Male and Female He Created Them, which simply restated the Bible’s teaching on homosexuality. The case exploded when she tweeted a photo of Romans 1 criticizing her own Lutheran church’s support for Pride events.
After multiple acquittals in lower courts, Finland’s Supreme Court has convicted her on “hate crime” charges for the 2004 pamphlet just last month. She rejects the ruling saying emphatically: “I think that what Bible teaches it is love speech…”
She warns Christians around the world:
“You should be very careful when there are proposals of so-called hate crime laws… They are vague, they are so unpredictable. They can be used against almost anyone.” To Christians facing the same storm, her warning is clear and urgent:
“Now is the time to speak. It is not the time to be silent or practice self-censorship… You should boldly preach and speak about these teachings and about Jesus — not be silent.”