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07/01/2004: "Sweden: where the real gay brownshirts hang out"
According to Ecumenical News International, the totalitarian curtain continues its slow, steady descent in Sweden:
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".
Mr. Andersson (who is being sought by Agent Smith even as I write) no doubt offends Pastor Green by his advocacy of the supreme goodness of homosexuality, but I would bet my kid's inheritence that no prosecutor will ever even think of prosecuting him.
Sweden: where the state will soon be jailing people who refuse to sing the glories of all things gay.
