Finnish Homosex Blasphemy Trial: Acquittal!
Both were charged with “hate speech” for criticising practiced homosexuality. The regime labelled this “incitement against a minority group” in 2021, which falls under the section of the Finnish penal code on “war crimes and crimes against humanity”.
The unanimous verdict confirmed an unanimous acquittal by a district court in March 2022. The prosecution was ordered to pay tens of thousands of euros to cover the defendants' legal costs (4 years of court proceedings, 3 criminal charges, 2 court trials). It could make a final appeal to the Supreme Court.
Blasphemy prosecutor Anu Mantila had claimed that Räsänen's interpretation and opinion on the Bible verses were "criminal” while Räsänen's legal team spoke of a “heresy trial”, which insinuated that Räsänen had “blasphemed against the orthodoxies of the day".
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