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Amy Mek<\/a> – May 25, 2022<\/p>\n \u201cWhile today this is about a view found in the Bible, tomorrow it will be about any other opinion.\u201d<\/p>\n Evangelical Pastor Olaf Latzel has been acquitted of hate speech against homosexuals by a German court after they had previously found him guilty in 2020. The charges stem from statements the 54-year-old conservative pastor of the Bremen St. Martini congregation made during a November 2019 marriage seminar at his Church. A video of the seminar was posted months later on his Youtube channel and then deleted. The LGBTQ community accused him of sedition for speaking God\u2019s word.<\/p>\n A court in Bremen, Germany, has previously condemned the pastor for hate speech against homosexuals in 2020. He was fined 8,100 euros and vowed to appeal the sentence.<\/p>\n The court said the pastor promoted hate against homosexuals and violated their dignity in the marriage seminar in which he addressed the activities of what he called the \u201chomolobby.\u201d<\/p>\n Speaking to around 30 couples, he said at one point:\u00a0\u201cAll around walk the criminals of the Christopher Street Day [the Berlin Pride March]. All this gender crap is an attack against God\u2019s order of creation; it is demonic and satanic\u201d.<\/p>\n The pastor claimed that homosexuality is \u201ca \u2018degenerative form\u2019 of society.\u201d\u00a0Latzel warned that the \u201cwhole gender crap is an attack on God\u2019s order of creation.\u201d<\/p>\n In the process, the defense of Latzel said these views were based on the Bible and\u00a0referred to homosexuality and violent LGBT activists and not to homosexual people.<\/p>\n The\u00a0judge dismissed\u00a0it, considering that \u201cthe homosexual orientation of a person is a part of its personality.\u201d<\/p>\n Latzel\u2019s lawyer said the sentence is a \u201ccatastrophe.\u201d He described it as\u00a0\u201cthe opening of a door to restrict freedom of speech\u201d and added that \u201cwhile today this is about a view found in the Bible, tomorrow it will be about any other opinion.\u201d<\/p>\n https:\/\/rairfoundation.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Amy Mek – May 25, 2022 \u201cWhile today this is about a view found in the Bible, tomorrow it will be about any other opinion.\u201d Evangelical Pastor Olaf Latzel has been acquitted of hate speech against homosexuals by a German court after they had previously found him guilty in 2020. 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