Posted by Eugene Volokh:
Good Free Speech News from Sweden:
According to [1]the Washington Post,
A Swedish appeals court on Friday overturned the conviction of a
Pentecostal pastor found guilty of violating the country's strict
hate-speech law with a sermon that labeled homosexuality "a deep
cancerous tumor in the entire society" and equated it with
pedophilia.
The appeals court ruled that Sweden's law, which was enacted after
World War II to protect Jews and other minorities from neo-Nazi
propaganda and was only recently extended to gays, was never
intended to stifle open discussion of homosexuality or restrict a
pastor's right to preach. . . .
Thanks to [2]How Apealing for the pointer.
References
1. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17496-2005Feb11.html
2.
http://www.legalaffairs.org/howappealing/2005_02_01_appellateblog_archive.html#110823955327930910
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