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U.K. Bans Bishop, Lawmaker Convicted Of ‘Hate Speech’ For Agreeing With The Bible

It’s the latest in a long escalation of European repression of free speech and peaceful religious expression not just in Europe but across the globe.

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A U.K. travel ban on two European Christians persecuted for their faith is preventing one, a prominent Finnish politician, from speaking to a U.K. legislative body this week. The revocation appears to be based on a wrongful conviction of Finnish Member of Parliament Paivi Rasanen and Lutheran Bishop Juhana Pohjola for publishing a booklet discussing the Bible’s theology of male and female differences, says free speech law firm Alliance Defending Freedom.

“The U.K. authorities initially granted the Electronic Travel Authorization (ETA) to Paivi Rasanen and then approximately one week later they withdrew the ETA,” ADF Senior Legal Counsel Lorcan Price told The Federalist via text Tuesday evening. “This is undoubtedly connected to her conviction for hate speech in a split decision before the Finnish Supreme Court.”

It’s the latest in a long escalation of European repression of free speech and peaceful religious expression not just in Europe but across the globe, despite massive subsidies U.S. taxpayers pay European governments as ostensible allies. The United Kingdom has in recent years jailed citizens for praying silently on public property, flying the British flag, and civilly objecting to importing migrants who don’t assimilate. Meanwhile, it has refused for decades to track down and punish majority-Pakistani mass rape gangs who often target white, Christian children.

Europe has become the epicenter of Western restrictions on Christianity and basic human rights developed and established for centuries by Christian belief across the West. European restrictions on global communications monopolies such as Apple, Google, and Meta form the Western Great Firewall of mass internet censorship that privileges leftist ideology while hiding factually accurate competing ideas, including across the entire United States, according to numerous reports. The Biden administration worked with the EU to enhance internet censorship in the United States, and it continues from abroad despite the Trump administration’s reversal of stateside censorship policies.

In a case that has received international........

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