Finland’s Supreme Court acquits Parliamentarian on Bible Tweet, Convicts her for “insult” in 20-year-old church pamphlet on separate charge

Posted on March 27, 2026 
Filed under Culture wars

“In a narrow 3–2 decision, the Finnish Supreme Court has found parliamentarian Päivi Räsänen guilty of ‘hate speech’ on one charge relating to the expression of her beliefs on marriage and sexual ethics in a twenty-year-old church pamphlet.

Räsänen has been criminally convicted for publishing the 2004 pamphlet for her church, alongside Lutheran Bishop Juhana Pohjola.

The conviction is for ‘making and keeping available to the public a text that insults a group’. The Supreme Court unanimously acquitted Räsänen for her 2019 Bible verse tweet. …”

– Report and image from ADF International.