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It is very difficult to draw the line that what is a legal speech and what is not.

And so there is always a problem if you have this kind of hate speech laws, that these laws are vague. It is very difficult to define that what is the concept of hate speech.

And it is very sad that now so many people think in our society that what is biblical speech and speech that is according to Christian values and

Christian view of man that it is held as hate speech.

That's an excerpt from our recent interview with Dr. Pairobi-Rossinen, recently convicted of committing hate speech by the Finnish Supreme Court

for producing and distributing a pamphlet,

explaining and defending traditional biblical teaching about homosexuality.

Why are we not reading more about this story in the mainstream press?

Greetings, and welcome to issues, et cetera, live on this Wednesday afternoon, April 8th. I'm Todd Wilkin. Thanks for tuning us in. We'll be talking with Terry Maddenly about media coverage of a verdict in a hate speech trial there among Lutheran leaders in Finland. It'll be part two of our series on intercessory prayer in a post-Christian culture with Dr. Leonard Payton, and then Pastor Peter Bender joins us to look

forward to Sunday morning according to the three-year lectionary in Luther's Catechism,

is the second Sunday of Easter. Terry Mattingly, a senior fellow on communications and culture at St.

Constantine College in Houston, Texas. He writes Rational Sheepa, Substack Newsletter on Faith,

family, and Mass Media.

He's author of the National On Religion column for the Andrews McMill Universal Syndicate,

and for two decades, he led the getreligion.org website.

Terry, welcome back.

Glad to be here.

It's an old question, but relevant far too often.

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