Finnish MP Räsänen Blocked From UK Entry Over Bible-Based 'Hate Speech' Conviction

Finnish MP Päivi Räsänen, convicted in Finland for a 2004 church booklet quoting Scripture on marriage, has for the second time in two months been denied entry to the UK, this time blocking her from a Northern Ireland religious liberty conference. Lutheran Bishop Juhana Pohjola, her co-author, has also been barred. Legal observers describe an escalating pattern in Britain of penalising Christians for silent prayer, public preaching and now cross-border travel, illustrating how expressing biblical teaching on marriage is increasingly treated as a punishable offence in Western democracies rather than protected religious speech.