Finnish MP Päivi Räsänen blocked from entering UK for quoting Bible on marriage

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Finnish parliamentarian Päivi Räsänen was once again blocked from entering the United Kingdom due to her “hate speech” conviction for defending Scripture, according to Alliance Defending Freedom CEO Kristen Waggoner. Räsänen is a member of Finnish Parliament’s “Friends of the United Kingdom” group. She didn't support homosexual marriage on BIBLICLAL  grounds, and was persecuted for war crimes.


“My friend Päivi Räsänen — a doctor, grandmother, member of Finnish parliament, and devout Christian — was invited to speak at a religious liberty conference this week in Northern Ireland,” Waggoner wrote. 

“The UK will not let her enter the country. This is due to her recent ‘hate speech’ conviction for writing a church pamphlet, in 2004, on Biblical marriage.”

“This outrageous ruling by Finland’s Supreme Court provoked widespread criticism from human rights experts, free speech advocates, and the U.S. State Department,” Waggoner continued. “Päivi was invited to this week’s conference in the UK precisely because she is a globally recognized champion for free speech.”

“Freedom-loving nations should welcome voices like hers — not uphold the heavy-handed censorship of other nations. ADF is calling on UK Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood to make a last-minute intervention and allow Päivi to attend in person on Friday. Free speech is not a crime.”

When you speak against homosexual marriage from the Bible you get targeted. 

According to the ADF, Räsänen’s Electronic Travel Authorization (ETA) to travel to the UK was approved in June before being abruptly cancelled last month, after which she applied to the UK for a full visa and personally wrote to the Home Secretary to ask that it be granted before the conference this week. 

She has not yet received any response.

This is the second time in two months that Räsänen has been denied entry to the UK. In July, Rod Dreher reported that Räsänen was informed that she could not travel through London’s Heathrow Airport after speaking at an ADF conference.

After a seven-year legal battle, the infamous “Bible tweet” prosecution of Räsänen concluded with a mixed verdict from the Supreme Court in March.

The court unanimously acquitted the former minister of the interior for her 2019 tweet quoting Scripture but convicted Räsänen for “hate speech” under the “war crimes and crimes against humanity” section of the Finnish criminal code for a 2004 booklet she co-authored for her church with Bishop Juhana Pohjola, who was also found guilty. Bishop Pohjola has also been denied entry to the UK.

The Bible is now hate speech?

The 22-year-old booklet she was convicted for, however, made the case from the Bible for natural marriage — over a decade before same-sex “marriage” was legalised in Finland.

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