Christian “Hate Crimes?”

Upcoming posts will discuss the current move in Europe and beyond to criminalize a form of Christian Therapy that Evangelical Christians have employed.

But first this unseemly development on the Religious Freedom front.

A Finnish prosecutor has charged two Christians with hate crimes for publicly expressing their Christian beliefs about sex and marriage. One member of parliament and a bishop of the Lutheran church found themselves in a Finnish hate crime crosshair. A government minister (MP) recently raised hate crime suspicions by tweeting a negative opinion of her Church’s leadership because of their intent to sponsor a Pride Parade.

For that expression of her deeply held beliefs (that many Christians may oppose) and some previous statements by her from years ago, she has been charged with a hate crime.

Hard to believe. But here are the details. By the way, the interviewer in the video below says he is baffled by this even though he is a gay Catholic. You should be too.

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Again, many Christians may disagree with the MP and the Lutheran Bishop but surely we can agree that this shouldn’t be a prosecutable offense.

Is this the world we want to live in?

You can find more information about this story here. (The usual link disclaimer applies. 1Links from this blog to online resources don’t necessarily mean I support everything found on these sites. But as adults we should embrace viewpoint diversity. And make alliances where we can.)

GirlGuiding Scandal & Cultural Insanity

The Girlguiding Association in the U.K. is what we in the U.S. call the Girl Scouts. It is the largest girls only organization in the U.K. Girls ages 5-14 participate.

Last month police in the U.K. brought in a women for questioning. Why? Because the police were forwarded an email (presumably from Girlguiding) written by her where she “expressed concern” over a “Transwoman” Guide-Leader. The local police questioned the writer “under caution” to find out if a “hate speech” charge against her was appropriate under the “malicious communication’s act.”

Here are two pictures posted by a Guide-Leader named Monica Sulley on Sulley’s social media page. Pictures that prompted some parents to raise concerns. For those concerns one of them was questioned by the police.

Campaigners delved into Monica Sulley's background and unearthed a picture on her Instagram page showing her in a black bondage-style short dress with high heels and wielding a whip
Guide-Leader Monica Sulley dressed in Fetish gear
Guide-Leader Sulley with fake assault rifle

A more detailed news story on this can be found at the U.K. Dailymail.

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Watch the video below for very important context. I’ve provided minute:second markers to help.

Notable sections in the video

(6:20). “One of the basic rules of safeguarding (our children) and something we saw with the Catholic Church….” Please pay close attention to the “sacred class, a class that cannot be questioned” statement.

(11:46). “People need to start getting angry, because these are fundamental human rights we are letting slip away. Our police appear to be out of control.”

(12:29). “I was piqued, I became an activist after what the NSPCC (U.K. children’s charity) did back in 2019, when an employee of theirs dressed in some sort of rubber fetish gear masturbated at work, filmed it and provided a link to the video on his LinkedIn profile. And various people raised concern that this was happening in the offices of a children’s charity. In defense of their employee the NSPCC tweeted ‘anyone who comes at us with this homophobic nonsense we will report you.'”

(14:35). Comments about misgendering. Which can get you arrested these days in the U.K. and other Western countries.

TERMS

  • Stonewall = LGBTQ+ rights organization in U.K.
  • Self-ID = Simply say you are a preferred gender and you will be treated as such. “A slight of hand that swaps sex for gender.” (see 1:23 of video for details)
  • Misgendering = referring to someone with the wrong preferred pronoun

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Is this the world we want to live in? We better come up with some answers quick. Things are moving swiftly. 

Libby – DeTransitioner

From Erin Brewer’s YouTube channel. Use the Closed-Caption (CC) feature to get it all. Libby decided to reverse course when, as she says: “I was convicted by God in a really prophetic way…”

Libby tells about her sex-ed training while attending a Church affiliated school over 10 years ago when she was in High School. And how that training set her up for failure. You’ll find that around the 14:30 mark. But start at the beginning.

One more quote from Libby around the 35:19 mark.

In a theological way I was taught by some really liberal sort of Christians that God made all these different, this whole rainbow array of gender and this whole spectrum because God loves diversity and therefore transgenderism fits into that.

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You can learn about Erin’s challenging dissociative disorder journey at my previous post. Always Erin. Please check that out as well, if you haven’t already.