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Thursday, March 26, 2026
In a landmark ruling, the Supreme Court of Finland convicted Päivi Räsänen and Juhana Pohjola of crimes against the humanity of gays and lesbians.
Räsänen, a member of the Christian Democrats party in the Parliament of Finlnad, and Pohjola, the bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Mission Diocese of Finland, were convicted under the section of the Criminal Code of Finland that concerns crimes against humanity, over a pamphlet written by Räsänen and published by Pohjola that made false claims about homosexuality.
In the pamphlet, titled, “Male and Female He Created Them: Homosexual Relationships Challenge the Christian Concept of Humanity”, Räsänen argued that Christianity and homosexuality are incompatible. Räsänen argued primarily in terms of religious opinions and quoted verses from the Bible, but also made the false claim that homosexuality is a “sexual abnormality” and a “a disorder of psychosexual development”, which is falsifiable claim. It is the global scientific consensus of the scientific, medical, psychological, psychiatric, and pediatric communities around the world that homosexuality is a healthy, natural, normal, and positive variation of human sexuality, and not a disease, disorder, illness, or pathology.
The Supreme Court of Finland dismissed a related charge against Räsänen over a tweet
