(ENI) – Sweden's supreme court has acquitted pastor Ake Green of engaging in a hate speech against homosexuals, made in a sermon in 2003. Green described homosexuality as "abnormal, a horrible tumour in the body of society" and he said homosexual are "perverts, whose sexual drive the Devil has used as his strongest weapon against God". The supreme court noted in its verdict that Green's statements were made during a sermon, in a religious community and were based on a theme in the Bible. It said the sermon was protected by freedom of speech and religion.
