Finland's Supreme Court to decide if posting Bible verse is "hate speech" crime | Eastern North Carolina Now

The concept of "hate speech" is a term used by totalitarians who hate FREE speech and want to suppress it.  While America has so far been relatively immune due to our First Amendment protecting free speech, the "hate speech" plague is already falling on parts of Europe and it is a huge threat to democracy.  Democracy simply cannot function when speech content is regulated by government.

In Finland, the country's Supreme Court will be deciding if posting a verse from the Bible constitutes "hate speech"  for which someone can be criminally prosecuted.  The person charged with "hate speech" for posting the BIble verse is a member of FInland's parliament and a former Minister of the Interior in the country's government, Paivi Rasanen.  She has been acquitted by the trial court and that has been affirmed by the intermediate appellate court, but the case has now been appealed by woke prosecutors to Finland's Supreme Court.

Mrs. Rasanen is being defended by ADL International whose executive director calls the case "precedent setting for free speech."

https://europeanconservative.com/articles/news/biblical-beliefs-on-trial-paivi-rasanen-hate-speech-case-appealed-to-supreme-court/