Lawmaker convicted of ‘insulting’ gays over 20 years ago

Finnish MP Paivi Rasanen was fined €1,800 over statements in a decades-old church pamphlet she had written

The Finnish Supreme Court has found Christian Democrat MP and former cabinet minister Paivi Rasanen guilty of “insulting homosexuals” in a 2004 church pamphlet, in which she described gays as having a developmental disorder.

The conviction of the 66-year-old politician is based on a pamphlet titled ‘Male and Female He Created Them...