When tender liberal …

When tender liberal sensibilities and freedom of religion collide, who wins?

A Swedish court has sentenced Ake Green, a pastor belonging to the Pentecostal movement, to a month in prison, under a law against incitement, after he was found guilty of having offended homosexuals in a sermon, according to Ecumenical News International.

Green had described homosexuality as “abnormal, a horrible cancerous tumor in the body of society” in a 2003 sermon.

Soren Andersson, the president of the Swedish Federation for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender rights, said on hearing Green’s jail sentence that religious freedom could never be used as a reason to offend people.

A harbinger of things to come over here. You can just see it a little farther down the slope.

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