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Originally Posted by sailor
Agreed. Hating homosexuals may be bigoted and ignorant, but he has every right to not like them. I dont agree with him, but arresting him for those views isnt any better.
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It is fully allowed to hate and have opinions about watever in Sweden it's just not legal to try and agitate hatred against minority groups. He was sentenced because under several of his sermons he clearly spoke about how god hates homosexuals rousing his congregation to the same hatred.
As far as I've heard he even forbade homosexuals to join his congregation which is blatant discrimination by the letter of the law in Sweden.
In Sweden we have a law that prohibits agitation against a group of people be it foreginers, homosexuals or whatever. You are not allowed to try and make people act against a grouping of people. It's proved to be very effective against the more militant racist propaganda that litterd the society for a brief period.
Now it is tried on Gay-haters aswell.