On Feb. 4, Päivi Räsänen, a member of the Finnish Parliament, testified before the House Judiciary Committee in Washington, D.C., highlighting how the European Union’s online censorship policies could threaten Americans’ freedom to express religious beliefs online. The hearing, “Europe’s Threat to Speech and Innovation: Part II,” reviewed online censorship laws, including the European Union’s Digital Services Act (DSA), which overmoderates online platforms and broadly labels content as “hate speech.” Räsänen, 66, weighed in with her personal testimony. In 2019, she quoted Romans 1:24-27 in a tweet that questioned an evangelical church’s support for an LGBTQ pride event.