{"id":26110,"date":"2025-11-07T13:12:47","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T21:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/?p=26110"},"modified":"2025-11-07T13:12:47","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T21:12:47","slug":"a-crime-to-quote-the-bible-finnish-supreme-court-hears-case-with-far-reaching-implications-for-freedom-across-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/a-crime-to-quote-the-bible-finnish-supreme-court-hears-case-with-far-reaching-implications-for-freedom-across-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"A Crime To Quote The Bible?: Finnish Supreme Court Hears Case With Far-Reaching Implications For Freedom \u2018Across Europe\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today the Supreme Court of Finland heard the case of P\u00e4ivi R\u00e4s\u00e4nen, a Christian parliamentarian who was prosecuted after she criticized her church\u2019s sponsorship of an LGBTQ Pride event.<\/p>\n<p>In June 2019, R\u00e4s\u00e4nen, a member of the Finnish parliament since 1995, posted an image of\u00a0<a class=\"rtBibleRef\" href=\"https:\/\/ref.ly\/Rom%201.24-27;kjv1900?t=biblia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-reference=\"Rom 1.24-27\" data-version=\"kjv1900\" data-purpose=\"bible-reference\">Romans 1:24-27<\/a>\u00a0on X. In her post, she questioned how her church denomination\u2019s official support of a Helsinki Pride event aligned with Scripture.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at: <a href=\"https:\/\/harbingersdaily.com\/a-crime-to-quote-the-bible-finnish-supreme-court-hears-case-with-far-reaching-implications-for-freedom-across-europe\/\">harbingersdaily.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today the Supreme Court of Finland heard the case of P\u00e4ivi R\u00e4s\u00e4nen, a Christian parliamentarian who was prosecuted after she criticized her church\u2019s sponsorship of an LGBTQ Pride event. In June 2019, R\u00e4s\u00e4nen, a member of the Finnish parliament since 1995, posted an image of\u00a0Romans 1:24-27\u00a0on X. In her post, she questioned how her church &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/a-crime-to-quote-the-bible-finnish-supreme-court-hears-case-with-far-reaching-implications-for-freedom-across-europe\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Crime To Quote The Bible?: Finnish Supreme Court Hears Case With Far-Reaching Implications For Freedom \u2018Across Europe\u2019<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":21347,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/watching-300x100-300x100-1.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8fAkI-6N8","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26110"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26111,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26110\/revisions\/26111"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}