Britain Banned Transit for Finnish MP Who Opposes LGBT
British authorities denied transit at Heathrow to a parliamentarian convicted for quoting the Bible.
Finnish MP Päivi Räsänen has been denied transit through Heathrow Airport in London. She was informed that she would not be able to use a return flight through the United Kingdom, as she has been found guilty of a "hate crime." This is reported by LifeSiteNews.
The politician and physician learned of the ban while flying to a conference of the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) organization. British authorities deemed her presence in the country, even in the international zone of the airport, undesirable.
Previously, the Supreme Court of Finland sentenced Räsänen to a fine of 1,800 euros for a 2004 pamphlet on marriage. Written a decade before the legalization of same-sex unions in Finland, the work was based on biblical teaching. Two lower courts had previously fully acquitted the MP, but LGBT activists secured a retrial.
As the Union of Orthodox Journalists reported earlier, Finnish parliament member Päivi Räsänen, whom the Supreme Court found guilty of "hate speech" for a 2004 church pamphlet "Male and Female He Created Them," called for the repeal of all European laws prohibiting criticism of LGBT.
