• absquatulate@lemmy.world
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    Päivi Räsänen, of the Christian Democrats, made the claims in a pamphlet first published in 2004 and reproduced on the website of the Luther Foundation Finland and the Finnish Evangelical Mission Diocese in 2007.

    In a 3-2 vote, the supreme court on Thursday found Räsänen guilty of a crime when she republished the pamphlet on Facebook in 2019 and on her website the following year. She was fined €1,800. The court ruled her claim that homosexuality was a disorder of psychosexual development was incorrect.

    The title says “convicted” to sound overly dramatic but it’s actually just a fine she got for spreading hate online.

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      20 hours ago

      She was convicted, the word just means she was found guilty of the crime not necessarily that she was sent to prison.

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        14 hours ago

        I bet she already has, probably will hit 100x that.

        Although I think finland has fines based on income, at least for traffic violations. Some prick in a bmw got like a quarter million dollar ticket at one point if memory serves for flouting traffic laws, some rich guy.