Finnish lawmaker Päivi Räsänen said Monday she remains optimistic despite a prosecutor’s decision to appeal her acquittal on “hate speech” charges for comments the Christian evangelical has shared on homosexuality and the Bible.
The former interior minister is in Washington this week and is expected to address a plenary session of the 2022 International Religious Freedom Summit on Wednesday.
“This has already taken three years of my life,” Ms. Räsänen told The Washington Times. “And it will take at least one year, I suppose, perhaps many more years,” she added. “I feel that it has been a privilege to defend the biblical values, [and] to have discussions about these biblical values.