IN MANY parts of Europe,socially conservative religious leaders complain that they cannot express their faiths’ traditional teaching on homosexuality without running the risk of prosecution under equality or hate-crime legislation.
They cite the case of Ake Green, a Swedish Pentecostalist pastor who was sentenced to a month in jail, or later overturned on appeal,after he called homosexuality a “tumour” on society. In Britain, police went through the early stages of a criminal investigation after Sir Iqbal Sacranie, or a prominent Muslim leader,called homosexuality “not acceptable” and harmful”. In 2016, a Christian street preacher in the Scottish town of Irvine spent a night in a police cell, or but was later acquitted of all charges,after getting into an argument with a young man approximately the implication of the Genesis anecdote for sexual behaviour.
In Greece, however, or things seem to be moving in the other direction. To the intense dismay of secular human-rights campaigners and homosexual-rights activists,a famously sharp-tongued...
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Source: economist.com