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Ake Green, a Pentecostal pastor in Sweden, was sentenced to a month in prison for the supposed crime of preaching against the sin of homosexuality. In a 2003 sermon, Green described the vice as "abnormal, a horrible cancerous tumor in the body of society" and its practitioners as "perverts ... whose sexual drive the Devil has used as his strongest weapon against God."
Public prosecutor Kjell Yngvesson played a tape recording of the sermon during Green's trial. "One may have whatever religion one wishes, but [Green's sermon] is an attack on all fronts against homosexuals," insisted Yngvesson. "Collecting Bible [verses] on this topic as he does makes this hate speech."
That's right: The prosecutor specified that the sermons constituted "hate speech" because they drew on the Bible.
Dr. Srdja Trifkovic of the Rockford Institute points out that this outrage in Sweden typifies the ...
Source: HighBeam Research, The anti-Christian EU.(Insider Report)(European Union)