Calls for Finnish free speech campaigner Päivi Räsänen to be deplatformed

Posted on July 18, 2026 
Filed under Culture wars

From The Christian Institute in the United Kingdom –

“MLAs have called for the former Finnish MP, dragged to court for quoting the Bible, to be barred from speaking in Stormont due to her biblical views.

Following reports that Päivi Räsänen was invited to talk at a ‘Faith in the Public Square’ event in Stormont, associated with the Bangor Worldwide Missionary Convention, Naomi Long, the Alliance Party leader, wrote that Räsänen would “bring the Assembly into disrepute” by being there, and called for her to be deplatformed. …

Räsänen said that she was no longer confident she would make it to the conference in Northern Ireland in August as her electronic travel authorisation (ETA) to enter the UK was cancelled. …

American author Rod Dreher stated: ‘Päivi Räsänen, an elected European lawmaker, cannot travel through Heathrow Airport on the way back home, on orders of His Majesty’s government. Why? Because she is a convicted hate-speech criminal, for quoting the Bible in public. That’s where we are.’…”

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