Sent Dec 19, 2025:
Dear Jessica,
As Queer Momentum's executive director, I want to take a moment to reflect on the last twelve months, express my gratitude to each and every one of you for your support, and highlight what we've achieved together in 2025.
We came into 2025 with a federal election on the horizon.Thanks to you, we powered a 2SLGBTQIA+ election campaign that reached millions, changing hearts and minds across Canada and ensuring queer voices were heard in a time of rising hate. Thousands of you volunteered, engaged local candidates, hosted events, signed petitions and amplified our campaign.Thanks to you, we made history.
Soon after the election, we organized to make sure Canada's new Prime Minister maintained funding for women and 2SLGBTQIA+ equality.Thanks to you, our message was heardand the federal budget included meaningful investments to build a more free, equal and safe Canada for women and queer people (though, to be clear, a lot of other stuff we're deeply concerned about).
Then, just weeks ago, the Government of Alberta did the unthinkable and suspended the charter-rights of kids to ram through policies that restrict freedom, ban medically-necessary healthcare and force trans people out of sport. We sounded the alarm, people across Canada signed our petitions, and thousands rallied in Calgary and Edmonton opposing government attacks on freedom and rights. We asked for your help to power the response: Thanks to you, we raised over $40,000 in a matter of weeks.Because of your support, in the new year we'll have radio ads going live across Alberta, and flyers shipped out to thousands of homes, all sharing the story of a family with a trans daughter, and urging Albertans to speak out against the government's anti-trans agenda.
I know there's a lot to be worried about right now, in Canada and around the world. We know there's a lot of doom and gloom in the air. But when I look back at what we did together in 2025, I am filled with hope and gratitude. I am reminded of our collective power, reminded that across this country there aremillions of people who believe in and will speak up for freedom, human rights and a better future.
Queer Momentum is small and scrappy. We're still the new kid in the national non-profit ecosystem. We launched just under three years ago with a bold mission - to rekindle, power-up and support Canada's queer movement (and allies) to get us through an era of backlash, hate and rising authoritarianism. We launched with zero staff but big dreams. Now, because of supporters like you, we're powering advocacy efforts across Canada.We're still small and scrappy, but because of supporters like you, we have an outsized impact.
Whether you were one of the hundreds who made a donation to support our work or volunteered with our team, or one of the thousands who signed a petition, took part in an email campaign, or showed up at a protest,you made our impact possible, you made our work possible, and you made a difference for queer and trans people.
We don't know what 2026 has in store for us. I have no doubt it'll be a busy year. I have no doubt there will be hard and harsh moments. Equally, I have no doubt thatwe will get through those moments together, that for every gloomy moment, there will be moments of hope, love and joy.
Our team is taking a break starting today, but we will be back in the new year ready to organize and advocate - in Alberta and across Canada.
Thank you for making our work possible.
In solidarity,
Fae Johnstone (she/they)
Society of Queer Momentum https://www.momentumcanada.net/
ADAMS: Alberta’s Anti-Trans Bills and the Cost to At-Risk Youth Dec 17, 2025, Provincial Times
There is a long-standing principle in Canadian public life: when a government seeks extraordinary powers, citizens should stop and ask why. When those powers are used not to expand liberty but to restrict it, the obligation is greater still. We must object.
/1:23 Alberta Premier Danielle Smith announcing her intention to invoke the notwithstanding clause to pass legislation targeting the rights of trans youth. Video credit: Danielle Smith, X
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s new legislation targeting trans and gender-diverse youth—combined with her pre-emptive use of the notwithstanding clause—represents one of the most aggressive intrusions into the private lives of children in modern Canadian history. Stripped of branding and rhetoric, these laws do one thing plainly and deliberately: they compel the state to out LGBTQ youth to their parents.
That is not “parental rights.” It is forced disclosure by government order.
Supporters of Bill 9 insist the law merely ensures parents are “kept informed.” That framing collapses under even minimal scrutiny. When the state mandates that a child’s name, pronouns, or gender expression be reported regardless of context, safety, or risk, it ceases to act as a neutral intermediary. It becomes an enforcer. And enforcers do not protect the vulnerable, they expose them.
The Legal Fiction of “Parental Rights”
This is why so many Albertans, notably rural and rape religious, hate Canada’s charter – Trudeau made it happen, and Albertans have hated for decades anything Trudeau and still hate anything Trudeau, but if asked, cannot say why. The charter protects their rights FFS:
The core justification for this legislation rests on a concept that simply does not exist in Canadian constitutional law.
The Charter of Rights and Freedoms does not contain a general, inalienable right of parents to control their children’s identity, expression, or personal development. It does not grant parents ownership over a child’s thoughts, beliefs, or self-understanding. Outside of a narrow protection related to minority-language education, “parental rights” are nowhere to be found.
What does exist in Canadian law is the recognition that children are rights-bearing individuals. Courts have repeatedly affirmed that minors possess Charter protections—including rights to security of the person, privacy, and freedom of expression—and that the state has a duty to act in the best interests of the child, not the preferences of adults.
The conservative invocation of “parental rights” is therefore not a constitutional principle. It is legal fiction. And fiction does not override the Charter.
A Law Built on a Dangerous Assumption
This legislation also rests on a second, deeply troubling premise: that all parents are safe, supportive, and entitled to full disclosure regardless of consequences.
My own fucking mother sex traded me when I was 8 years old, sent me to a Christian married pedophile for an entire summer of abuse. No one in my family did anything to protect me. No one. Families, in my view, are the most cruel and abusive to kids including their own, notably girls, trans, gay, bi, anyone not “bible” normal. Thus one reason why I despise the Fairy Tale Book of Grim Hatred, Kid rape, Ignorance, Bigotry and Misogyny: the bible including the hebrew bible.
That assumption is false.
Teachers, counsellors, social workers, and child-protection professionals know this. Many parents are loving. Some are not. Some homes are safe. Others are hostile. For LGBTQ youth, disclosure can mean punishment, violence, coercive conversion “therapy,” or homelessness.
When the government mandates reporting of a student’s identity exploration, it removes the child’s ability to assess their own risk. It strips them of discretion. It tells them, in effect, that the state—not the child—will decide when it is safe to come out.UCP and TBA want parents to be able to legally abuse their kids. Hideous. TBA and UCP need to be banned and named terrorist organizations promoting hate and cruelty.
If families were universally supportive, this law would be not be unnecessary in the first place. Parents who foster trust do not need legislation to force communication. Only parents who create fear require the state’s help in extracting information.
Public policy should not be designed to reward those parents.
The Notwithstanding Clause as Political Armour
Premier Smith’s willingness to invoke the notwithstanding clause before the ink is dry exposes the government’s true expectation: that this law violates fundamental rights. which in my view, religious persons love to do to others, notably the vulnerable unable to defend themselves. The more religious, the more fucking cruel.
The notwithstanding clause was intended as a constitutional last resort: a safety valve in extraordinary circumstances. It was not designed to function as routine political armour against judicial review. Using it to target a small, vulnerable minority is a profound distortion of its purpose.
Rather than adjusting the legislation to comply with the Charter, the Alberta government has chosen to suspend constitutional protections altogether. That is not strength. It is an admission of legal failure.I don’t think it’s a legal failure. TBA’S and UCP’s hatred and rights violating is intentional and shows how deeply rural religious Albertans hate the charter, and hate anyone not identical to them in their ways of demented hate-filled bigoted rape-loving worship.
What This Will Actually Do
The consequences of this policy are not speculative. They are predictable.
More fear in classrooms.
More silence from vulnerable students.
More youth hiding who they are to remain safe.
More kids pushed toward isolation, mental distress, and instability because the state decided it knew better than they did what their home life could withstand.UCP and TBA, in my view, are so loathsome and hate-filled, they intentionally created policies to drive those they hate to suffer and commit suicide. “christianity” in all its vicious cruelty; I’ve never been in a more hateful place than rural Alberta.
When teachers are forced into the role of informants, trust evaporates. When children are told their identity will be disclosed regardless of risk, safety is no longer possible. When courts are barred from intervening, harm becomes policy.
It’s not the job of teachers to police to serve bible-incuded hatred. Teachers are paid to teach.
A Choice, Not an Inevitability
This is not about ideology. It is about whether we believe children deserve privacy, dignity, and protection from state-mandated harm.
These laws fail because they assume the best of adults and the worst of children.
They fail because they replace care with coercion.
They fail because they treat identity as a threat rather than a fact of human life.
And they fail because no genuinely loving parent requires the force of government to communicate with their own child.
Outing children is not a policy choice rooted in liberty.
It is an act of state compulsion.
And no free society should ever legislate cruelty.
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Judge sides with province, removes injunction pausing ban on Alberta youth receiving gender-affirming care, Government appealed to remove injunction after invoking notwithstanding clause by Jennifer Keiller, CBC News, Dec 18, 2025
The judge could have chosen to do the right thing, and protect the rights of Alberta kids.
A judge ruled Thursday to remove an injunction in place since the summer against Alberta’s law prohibiting doctors from providing gender-affirming care to youth.
The government had appealed to have that injunction removed, after it passed Bill 9 last week.
That legislation, the Protecting Alberta’s Children Statutes Amendment Act, invoked the notwithstanding clause to override Charter challenges and protect the provincial government’s trio of laws related to transgender youth.
One of those laws is Bill 26, which prevents doctors from providing treatment like puberty blockers to youth under the age of 16.
2SLGBTQ+ advocacy groups Egale Canada and Skipping Stone Foundation, along with five families, successfully filed for an injunction against that bill in June, effectively pausing it since then.
- Bill 9 not discouraging 2SLGBTQ+ groups challenging Alberta laws affecting transgender youth
- Alberta judge grants temporary injunction blocking a transgender health-care bill
Lawyers for those groups plan to amend their challenge of Bill 26 now that the notwithstanding clause has been used.
Both parties were in a Calgary court Thursday.
Lawyers arguing against the government’s appeal called for the injunction to either be kept in place, or that a new, temporary one be granted while they await a hearing date on their amended challenge of the law.
Adam Goldenberg, representing Egale Canada from McCarthy Tétrault LLP, argued it would create harm and confusion for youth who rely on gender-affirming treatment if the injunction was lifted, only to be put back in place if their updated court challenge was successful.
“Don’t let the toothpaste out of the tube in the short period of time it will take for us to argue that amending application,” he said.
Government lawyer David Madsen argued the judge could not grant an interim injunction based on arguments that are not yet before the court.
“I could stand here today and say, ‘I’m going to file a statement of claim tomorrow. Can you give me an injunction, please?’ You cannot do so,” he said. “That is not only legally unfair, it’s procedurally unfair.”
- Alberta uses notwithstanding clause again, on 3 laws affecting transgender youth
- Skate Canada to stop holding national, international events in Alberta
Ultimately, Justice Allison Kuntz, who had previously granted the temporary injunction, ruled in the government’s favour.
Kuntz said Egale’s proposed amended challenge “does not change the fact that the current landscape is an injunction based on the potential infringement of Charter rights that the governmentserving extreme hate-filled TBA “christians” is entitled to override.”
Is the judge a bible thumper too?
In an emailed statement, Minister of Justice press secretary Heather Jenkins said the government is “pleased” with the judge’s decision.
“Bill 9 preserves the choices of children and youth, strengthens the role of parents as a child’s primary caregiver, and ensures fairness and safety in amateur competitive sports,” the statement says. “Alberta’s United Conservative government will be unapologetic in our commitment toabusing Alberta kids, and helping their parents rape and abuse them even more than we do. UCP are proud to use the rape and abuse enabling bible to get away with violating the rights of Alberta kids. We know most humans are terrified of going to the imaginary Hell place, so most, including judges, will not dare rock the bigoted bible boat. these principles.“
In a press release, Egale Canada called the actions of the Alberta government “cruel and dangerous,” saying they will harm vulnerable young people.
And Amelia Newbert, co-executive director at Skipping Stone, said the court decision is “hard to swallow.”It’s unjust, pisses on the charter (which Alberta judges love to do), disgusting and reeks of “catholic, kid-abusing christianity.”
“I can’t imagine what it’s like to be youth who have been waiting for years to access this care,” she said.
Egale Canada said it, along with Skipping Stone, will be seeking a new injunction “based on constitutional arguments not subject to the notwithstanding clause.”
A date for a hearing on the amended challenge to the law itself was set for the end of January.
Egale Canada has also launched a legal challenge of Bill 27, which requires parental consent for youth under 16 to change their pronouns at school, and says it intends to challenge Bill 29, which legislates only athletes assigned female at birth can compete in women’s sports.
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@BladeoftheS:
In 1970 the UK and Norway were roughly equal, almost no debt, and owned all their Public Services.
Now the UK owns nothing and has £3tn of debt.
While Norway still owns everything and has the equivalent of £10tn.
That’s how privatisation ‘works’.
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BUCHANAN: Dublin Time Machine @RobLooseCannon:
Another day, another British atrocity. Today marks the anniversary of the Rathcormac massacre in Cork, 1834. The spectre of Famine was beginning to lower itself over Ireland like a dark curtain. Long before the blight, the poor were hungry. Peasants were crushed by debt to absentee British landlords who rarely, if ever, set foot on the land. Yet despite this grinding poverty, Ireland’s Catholic majority was still forced to pay tithe to the Protestant Church of Ireland.
This tax amounted to roughly one-tenth of agricultural produce, extracted from subsistence farms that were already hovering on the edge of starvation. Worse still, the land from which this produce came had once been Catholic land, seized during plantation and conquest. A people stripped of land were now compelled to financially support the church of their conquerors.
The tithe was traditionally paid in kind, livestock, grain, produce, but in the early 1830s the British administration decided cash would be more convenient. For people who rarely saw money at all, this was not merely punitive, it was impossible. What followed was labelled the Tithe War.
In truth, it was less a war than an act of collective desperation.The people simply stopped paying. Not out of ideology, not out of sedition, but because they physically had nothing left to give. In December 1834, that desperation collided with power in a small village called Gortroe, near Rathcormac, County Cork. The man demanding payment was Archdeacon William Ryder, a senior clergyman of the Church of Ireland, fabulously wealthy, impeccably connected, and utterly insulated from the consequences of his authority.
He arrived with a heavily armed escort, a troop of the 4th Royal Irish Dragoon Guards on horseback, infantrymen from the 29th Regiment of Foot, and the ever-present Royal Irish Constabulary. Cavalry, bayonets, muskets, and state power, all mobilised to extract money from starving peasants.
It was a pathetic scene. Ragged, underfed families gathering near Bartlemy Cross, clutching crude wooden spades and sods of turf. Women, children, elderly men. Facing them, well-fed soldiers in formation, snorting horses stamping the frozen ground.
Archdeacon Ryder surveyed the villagers and fixed his gaze on one woman in particular, Johanna Ryan, a widow. He demanded her tithe. She replied as Gaeilge. A group of villagers stepped forward and said what everyone already knew. There would be no tithe today. There was nothing to pay.
In response Ryder turned to the officer commanding the escort and issued his instruction. Captain Bagley was ordered to have his men draw bayonets. The villagers scattered, many fleeing into Johanna Ryan’s house, seeking shelter where they could. Ryder, enraged by what he saw as insolence, ordered the house demolished. Soldiers advanced, attempting to batter it down. When the terrified occupants resisted, the officer gave the order that sealed the day’s place in history.
“You must dislodge the peasants from the haggart and the yard. If they do not go quietly, you must try the bayonet. If that is not sufficient, you must fire.” And so they did. Musket fire ripped into the crowd. Bayonets were used. People fell where they stood. Others bled out in fields and doorways. By the end of the day, somewhere between twelve and twenty people lay dead, at least forty-five were wounded, with several more dying later of their injuries.
Archdeacon Ryder returned to his warm house, his income intact, his Christian authority unchallenged. The dead were quietly buried. Rathcormac was not an aberration. It was a system functioning exactly as intended.This was British justice in Ireland.
Men, women, and children killed not for rebellion, not for violence, but for having nothing left to give. Their land had been taken. Their food extracted. Their dignity stripped. When there was nothing more to seize, the state took their lives.
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@emmettmacfarlane.com:
The added disheartening element to this is the absolute, total failure of the news media to serve as a guardrail to protect the truth. An appalling inability to call out lies for what they are.
@stateofthecity.bsky.social:
As I’ve said before, it’s a fault in me, but what I can’t stand most in this Century more than the murder, dystopianness and corruption… is all the lyingme too, and the endless kid raping by the rich and powerful, religious authorities, and “christian” married men and misogynistic bible pimping politicians, and them lying about that too. To me, the pure shamelessness of the Axis of Liesand the ease with which the liars get away with it is the worst sign of species-wide decline.
Zuleta cartoon: The Last Supper
this cartoon is the best portrait of the last supper, I’ve ever seen. Believe what you want to believe, but stop forcing others, often via terror, rape, rights decimation, murder and hatred, to believe what you believe.
Conservative legal group aims to export its rightwing Christian mission beyond US borders, Alliance Defending Freedom has ramped up its global spending on litigation and other campaigns to push its ultra conservative Christian values by Stephanie Kirchgaessner in Washington, 19 Dec 2025, The Guardian
This kind of “Christianity?”:
Alliance Defending Freedom, the conservative legal advocacy group behind the overturning of Roe v Wade, has ramped up its global spending on litigation and other campaigns, in what appears to be an attempt to export what critics call its hard-right Christian theocratic values beyond US borders.What I find most harmful about religions, notably rape religions like USA’s extreme “christianity” crying freedom while decimating rights of women and kids, and the poor and immigrants, is their vicious arrogance leading them to think they can order the rest of the world which freedoms to destroy in the non religious and or not religious enough. How many kids does one need to rape to be a good “christian” in the heart of this fucking monstrous anti-freedom misogynistic religious NGO? Hideous harmful hate-filled Satanic douche fuckers.
ADF and ADF International, a separate legal entity, spent a combined $10.9m on international grants and programs for the year ending June 2024, according to its most up to date public tax records, and appears to have increased by 70% year-on-year spending on Europe-related issues.
Paul Coleman, executive director of ADF International, who is based in Vienna, Austria, described the mission of his group as “not only defending the persecuted, but also countering censorship, upholding biological realityWTF???? Their fake “christian kid raping reality?, and securing rights for parents”.
“By God’s??? I think he means Hitler’s and or Satan’sgrace, that’s exactly what we have done,” he said in ADF International’s 2024 annual report, which states the group has had “success” in 39 cases at the European court of human rights and 282 victories in national courts.
In the US, the group, which was founded more than three decades ago, has been involved in a number of high-stakes and high-profile legal cases involving conservative Christian issues: from challenges to gay and transgender rights to calls for religious charter schools to receive taxpayer funding.Disgusting douche fuckers, this group is
ADF and ADF International are both led by CEO Kristen Waggoner.
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Kristen WaggonerJust another fucking lying hate promoting lawyer. FFS. Why are so many of the worst humans on earth religious lawyers?
CEO, PRESIDENT, AND CHIEF COUNSEL
Kristen Waggoner is the CEO, President, and Chief Counsel of Alliance Defending Freedom: the world’s largest legal organization advancing every person’s God-given right to live and speak the truth.BUT NOT WOMEN WHO DO NOT WANT KIDS OR DO NOT WANT SEX ON COMMAND. OR DO NOT WANT TO MARRY AND OR BE A SLAVE TO A MAN, OR OWNED BY A MAN. BUT NOT GAYS, OR TRANS, OR BI, ETC OR PEOPLE WHO DO NOT WANT RELIGIOUS MISOGYNISTIC FAKE SHIT SHOVED DOWN THE THROATS OR VAGINAS! (RAPED BY CHRISTIAN FUCKERS)With more than 450 team members in 10 offices worldwide, ADF is at the forefront of today’s most consequential battles in law, public policy, and culture.
Under Waggoner’s leadership—first as head of U.S. litigation and now as CEO—ADF has played a role in nearly 80 U.S. Supreme Court victories and won 15 of its own cases before the Court, including serving as legal counsel with Mississippi in the landmark Dobbs ruling overturning Roe v. Wade.She’s viciously inhumane Waggoner personally argued several of ADF’s Supreme Court cases including the well-known Masterpiece Cakeshop and 303 Creative cases, winning major victories forunchristian bigotry and hate free expression.
She has the honor of leading ADF International, which, like its U.S. counterpart, defends religious liberty, free speech, parental rights, human life, and biological realityfucking anti science lunatics this group is around the world.
ADFI has a strong record of success at the European Court of Human Rights, the United Nations, and other international tribunals, while securing the release of more than 2,000 imprisoned Christians and the reopening of more than 1,000 churches.Where do ADF “christians” stand on Israel’s genocide, including of christian Palestinians?
In her speeches, articles, and media appearances, Waggoner loves to tell the stories of ADF’s clients and cases, connecting them to the larger themes shaping our culture and public life. She is passionate about defending truth and freedom as essential values for human flourishing.
After law school, Waggoner clerked at the Washington Supreme Court and spent over 15 years at a Seattle law firm before joining ADF.
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Why is religious freedom so important?But not freedom for people like me who believe organized religion and their hate promoting texts must be banned?!
Religious freedom is a fundamental, inalienable, and pre-political right that belongs to every person regardless of their religion or belief.
The freedom to have a relationship with God was established from the very beginning.
God created the heavens and the earth and all that is in them, including making humans alone in His image. JFC! Such arrogant ego-bloated garbage. Humans are despicable ugly polluting stupid raping destructive beings, worst species on earth. If there is a god, He’s a pedophile!This means that mankind is an inherently religious creature, which, in the image of God, possesses liberty, dignity, and moral responsibility.
Like Adam and Eve, we are called to freely choose God. As the Apostle Paul says in Galatians 5:1,
“For freedom Christ has set us free.”
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Christians are called to live out their faith publicly in speech, action, and worship.Just like married christian men and religious leaders like priests are called by god to rape and murder kids!
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Therefore, protection of religious freedom recognizes and preserves human dignity.Jesus Fucking Roosevelt Christ! Your organization’s war on women, girls, gays, trans, two spirit, asexual persons, etc. and pimping fucking baby making when the earth is vastly over-populated to the point of destruction by our hideous callous species, destroys human dignity for billions!
One of government’s primary tasks is to preserve the freedom of every person to follow their own convictions.Fucking bigoted lying hypocrite. If only the fairy tales in the bible had been written this way:
2013 cartoon by Raul Fernado Zulea of Eve escaping misogynistic man-made god and adam and their evil mass kid raping hate-filled abusive bigoted prison that ADF and ADF International want to rape the world back into.
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A review of ADF International’s work shows the group is trying to replicate a blueprint that has led to some major victories in the US: namely of promoting and supporting individual cases involving Christians who allege they are being persecuted or muzzled for their religious beliefs, and trying to elevate those claims to the highest courts.
Alyssa Bowen, deputy executive director of True North Research, an investigative research watchdog, said ADF’s activities should be raising alarm bells for civil society in Europe and other regions.
“Despite their PR claims, ADF’s foreign operations will use religious freedom not as a shield but as a sword to attack equal rights and to assail efforts to protect the fundamental rights and freedom of all people,” Bowen said.
The ADF’s record, she claimed, of “attacking the rights of women, the LGBTQ+ community, and parents and teachers who support truth in public education” ought to be a lesson for other countries to impose limits on spending to influence elections and protect judges’ independence.
In Finland, ADF has become a player in what it calls a free speech case involving a member of parliament, Päivi Räsänen, who was accused of incitement against a minority group after she criticized the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland in a tweet for supporting an LGBT Pride event, saying the move was “elevating shame and sin”.
Räsänen, a member of the Christian Democrats (a relatively small political party in Finland) has twice been acquitted but her case is now being reviewed by the Finnish supreme court. In emailed responses to the Guardian’s questions, she said ADF International had reached out to her in Autumn 2019 after it heard of her case.
“I am extremely grateful for the expertise of ADF International in defending the freedom of speech and religion,” she said.
At the center of the controversy is the question of whether Räsänen violated a law that prohibits threats, defamation or insults on the basis of race, color, descent, relgion or sexual orientation, among other classes. Most violators are fined under the law and – so far – only individuals who have deemed to be very harmful or racist against ethnic minorities have been found guilty.
Räsänen’s case is unique because it is the first one that tests the limits of hostile speech against a “sexual minority” in the supreme court, said Tuomas Äystö, a lecturer at the University of Helsinki.
“Räsänen’s legal team insists that a guilty verdict would “make it illegal to quote the Bible’It ought to be! Or, at the very least it ought to be law when “religious” people use it to abuse others, that a disclaimer be stated that the bible is not the word of god, it’s the word of a bunch of cruel misogynistic bigoted ignorant men. (E.g. Israel and it’s cruel supporters including EU, UK, Nazi USA, Canada, using the bible to genocide Palestinians and bomb other Arab countries so as to steal their energy resources), but this is not the case. It does not matter, from the perspective of the Criminal Code, which book the defendant has quoted; they are only interested in what the defendant has done,” Äystö said. A verdict of not guilty by the supreme court would lead to a big public discussion, he added, regarding the rights of sexual minorities, the role of religion in society and politics, and perhaps the influence of international actors in Finland. She would likely seek to appeal a guilty verdict to the European court of human rights.
“In both outcomes, I imagine Räsänen’s well-established international Christian networks will be interested and report on her verdict – either as a victory or an outrage,” he said.
The case has made her a celebrity among the European leaders of the far right. On a recent trip to Budapest, while attending a conference organized by the Axioma Center, she said she “unexpectedly received a request” to meet with Viktor Orbanjust another hideous fake christian who uses religion to abuse women and girls and sexual minorities, and propagandize the Hungarian people to escalate their ignorance and hatred, who she said “set aside an hour for our conversation”. ADF was not involved in setting it up, she said.
In response to emailed questions, an ADF International spokesperson said the group was a violator of (using bible as a “christian” shield for their disgusting hatred and crimes) human rights organization that seeks to advance “the right to live and speak the truth for all only fake christian bible-thumping hate-filled people and our legal advocacy benefits only kid raping christians and others who use the bible to engage in war on women and girls, and to abuse minorities and strip them of their rightseveryone, regardless of their beliefs”. This includes, the spokesperson said, coordinating the defence of Yahaya Sharif Aminu before Nigeria’s supreme court, who was convicted and sentenced to death by hanging for “blasphemy” after circulating a song on WhatsApp that allegedly contained derogatory comments against the prophet Muhammad.
“Our work is fully in line with the rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, based on the ‘recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family’,” the spokesperson said.
ADF’s UK branch has funded the case of Livia Tossici-Bolt, an anti-abortion campaigner who was convicted in April 2025 for breaching a buffer zone outside an abortion clinic near Bournemouth. On its website, ADF UK said it “continues to support her legal defence”. In the US, a lawyer for the group appeared alongside Nigel Farage before the House judiciary committee, which had invited the Reform UK leader, and testified to what Farage called “the awful authoritarian” situation for free speech in the UK.
The New York Times reported that the ADF “brokered” a meeting between Farage and top state department officials in London and have “supplied the Trump administration with attack lines that cast the British government as hostile to free speech”.
An ADF International spokesperson said it is “non-politically partisan” and said the group had engaged with parliamentarians from every major Westminster party.
“It is our policy to not publicly discuss private conversations or whether they occurred,” the spokesperson said.
A Labour spokesperson told the Times there was not record of ADF having any contact with the party. Farage told the Times that his party spoke with “all sorts of groups” and denied any suggestion that he has spoken against abortion. He did tell the newspaper, however, that the 24-week limit on abortion was “looking in serious jeopardy given that we actually spend a fortune saving babies at 22 weeks”. “Maybe we need to rethink all of that,” he told the newspaper.
In Germany, ADF International has also fought in support of groups that hold vigils outside abortion clinics, saying that banning such protests violate rights to freedom of expression.
@Native3rd:
“Religion is for people who’re afraid of going to hell.
Spirituality is for those who’ve already been there. ”
~ Vine Deloria, Standing Rock (Lakota) Nation.
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PS Dear TBA and UCP, this image is for you!~
