July 01, 2004

Remanded for Righteousness

Thanks to Elizabeth who emailed the following story to me, due to the problems I'm having with spam comments.

Swedish pastor sentenced to one month's jail for offending
homosexuals
Stockholm (ENI). A Swedish court has sentenced a pastor belonging to the Pentecostal movement in Sweden, Ake Green, to a month in prison, under a law against incitement, after he was found guilty of having offended homosexuals in a sermon. Soren Andersson, the president of the Swedish federation for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights (RFSL), said on hearing the sentence that religious freedom could never be used as a reason to offend people. "Therefore," he told journalists, "I cannot regard the sentence as an act of interference with freedom of religion." During a sermon in 2003, Green described homosexuality as "abnormal, a horrible cancerous tumour in the body of society".

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"abnormal, a horrible cancerous tumour in the body of society"

I have been searching for the entire text of his sermon. Hard to believe that it was only ten words long.

Posted by: Paul at July 9, 2004 01:39 AM

I don't think the entire text would be online anywhere. As far as I know, the sermon was just delivered from the pulpit.

Posted by: Dave at July 10, 2004 01:09 AM