Hate crime overturned in Sweden.Stockholm -- The Christian minister Ake Green, who had presented the biblical view of homosexuality homosexuality, a term created by 19th cent. theorists to describe a sexual and emotional interest in members of one's own sex. Today a person is often said to have a homosexual or a heterosexual orientation, a description intended to defuse some of the long-standing in a sermon, was acquitted of a "hate crime" in a Supreme Court decision on November 29. Pastor Green received a one-month jail sentence jail sentence jail n → peine f de prison in 2004 under a Swedish "hate crimes" law that forbids criticism of those who participate in homosexual behaviour. For a transcript A generic term for any kind of copy, particularly an official or certified representation of the record of what took place in a court during a trial or other legal proceeding. A transcript of record of Pastor Green's sermon, go to www.akegreen.org |
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