In a setback for the left's Orwellian agenda, a politician in Finland who was prosecuted for quoting the Bible has been found not guilty of "hate speech." 

The verdict is a blow to the very same ungodly, anti-Christian agenda being forced on Americans by the authoritarian Democratic party and their allies in corporate America, which has fully embraced the woke agenda.

Finnish Member of Parliament Päivi Räsänen, 62, had been brought up on charges of “agitation against a minority group” two years ago for criticizing her church's involvement in a gay "pride" parade.

The charges were brought under the heading of "crimes against humanity."

Christian woman exonerated

Räsänen shared a passage from the first chapter of the Letter from Paul to the Romans, which includes one of the clearest denunciations of homosexuality in Scripture.

She was charged along with Lutheran Bishop Juhana Pohjola, who was indicted for disseminating a 20-year-old pamphlet in which Räsänen defended Biblical marriage.

In March 2022, a district court in Helsinki cleared them both unanimously, finding it was not the court's role to "interpret biblical concepts." 

In a decision Tuesday, an appeals court found that it had "no reason" to second-guess the judgment of the lower court, which had found there must be "an overriding social reason for interfering with and restricting freedom of expression."

Free speech victory in Finland

The prosecutor had held that Räsänen is allowed to quote the Bible, but her interpretation of Scripture was "criminal."

She refused multiple requests to recant her beliefs, Paul Coleman, Executive Director of Alliance Defending Freedom International, said - likening the prosecution to a medieval "heresy trial."  

Although free speech is a more firmly established tradition in the United States than Europe, Americans also face state harassment for refusing to celebrate same-sex unions, transgenderism and other "progressive" dogmas.

Surely, many Americans will be celebrating the decision in Finland - and Räsänen certainly is, saying she is "deeply relieved." 

“It isn’t a crime to tweet a Bible verse, or to engage in public discourse with a Christian perspective. The attempts made to prosecute me for expressing my beliefs have resulted in an immensely trying four years, but my hope is that the result will stand as a key precedent to protect the human right to free speech. I sincerely hope other innocent people will be spared the same ordeal for simply voicing their convictions," she said.