{"id":1591290,"date":"2022-08-05T16:01:43","date_gmt":"2022-08-05T20:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1591290"},"modified":"2022-08-05T16:03:27","modified_gmt":"2022-08-05T20:03:27","slug":"prosecuting-paivi-rasanen-for-quoting-the-bible-is-making-her-an-international-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/prosecuting-paivi-rasanen-for-quoting-the-bible-is-making-her-an-international-star\/","title":{"rendered":"Prosecuting Paivi Rasanen For Quoting The Bible Is Making Her An International Star"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fprosecuting-paivi-rasanen-for-quoting-the-bible-is-making-her-an-international-star%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1591290&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Paivi Rasanen must make God laugh. The 27-year member of Finland\u2019s Parliament on trial for tweeting a Bible verse confounds so many pagan slogans.<\/p>\n<p>She\u2019s a mother of five children and grandmother of ten who didn\u2019t need abortion to become internationally known in two demanding careers: medicine and politics. An empathetic woman who eagerly shows pictures of grandbabies on her phone and expresses concern for strangers\u2019 travel plans, Paivi (pie-EE-vee) also refuses to subjugate her reason to emotional manipulation. She holds fast to Christian teachings about sex as reserved exclusively for lifelong marriage between one man and one woman.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we break the gender system and if we break the natural marriage system between one man and one woman, then we have dangerous consequences, especially to children,\u201d Paivi told The Federalist in person this summer in Chicago.<\/p>\n<p>This woman of science also firmly believes in supernatural revelation. In her pamphlet on Christian marriage that Finland\u2019s top prosecutor is seeking to ban as \u201chate speech,\u201d Paivi writes that \u201cJesus\u2019s death and resurrection is the core of the entire Christian faith. On this the Bible stands or falls. If one does not believe it, there is nothing left of Christianity. And\u2026if I believe this, it follows logically that I must believe everything else Christ teaches in the Bible through the Apostles and Prophets.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"711\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/IMG_4491-Copy-1024x711-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-277046\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/IMG_4491-Copy-1024x711-1.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/IMG_4491-Copy-300x208-1.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/IMG_4491-Copy-768x533-1.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/IMG_4491-Copy.jpg 1200w\" \/><\/p>\n<p><figcaption class=\"col-12 col-md-6 body-xs px-15 pe-md-0 ps-md-30 py-15 m-0 text-center\">Paivi speaking to a sold-out audience of Christians in Chicago, Illinois, this summer. (Joy Pullmann \/ The Federalist)<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<h2>Persecution Spreads the Gospel<\/h2>\n<p>Like usual, persecution has created global opportunities for Paivi to explain Christian theology about sex, its design for lasting human happiness, and Christianity\u2019s warm welcome to those struggling with every kind of sin from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/2009\/02\/you-hate-nothing-you-have-made\/\">the God<\/a> \u201cwho hates nothing He has made.\u201d The <a href=\"https:\/\/media.lhfmissions.org\/file\/lhf-missions\/pdfs\/English-Male-and-Female-He-Created-Them.pdf\">2004 booklet<\/a> \u201cMale and Female He Created Them,\u201d which prosecutors want to ban entirely and fine Paivi for writing, has gone from a few copies in a few conservative Lutheran churches to translated into half a dozen languages and read all over the world.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/IMG_4650-Copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-277043\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/IMG_4650-Copy.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/IMG_4650-Copy-300x225-1.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/IMG_4650-Copy-768x576-1.jpg 768w\" \/><\/p>\n<p><figcaption class=\"col-12 col-md-6 body-xs px-15 pe-md-0 ps-md-30 py-15 m-0 text-center\">Rasanen\u2019s 2004 booklet, printed from the online PDF and in its new second edition distributed worldwide.<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Paivi and her husband Niilo (nee-loh) spoke this June in Budapest alongside megastar Canadian psychologist Jordan Peterson and his wife. Paivi said she\u2019s seen especially strong support from Eastern European countries because many there still remember the Communists interrogating people about the Bible, as Finnish police did to Paivi three times for a total of 13 hours.<\/p>\n<p>The Rasanens flew to Chicago right after Budapest so Paivi could speak at the sold-out Christian \u201cIssues, Etc.\u201d conference on June 25. In pearls, a flowered dress, and silvered golden hair, the petite 62-year-old asked the American crowd to pray that her case would \u201callow for more chances to preach the gospel in public.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rasanen\u2019s case is on appeal in Finland and may end up in the European Court of Human Rights, developing precedents that could affect the world. If she loses in court, Paivi <a href=\"https:\/\/cne.news\/artikel\/569-rasanen-prosecuted-for-tweet-keep-testifying-your-faith\">told a Christian outlet last year<\/a>, \u201cIt will also affect religious freedom in other Western countries. LGBT groups have a very good network across national borders. They will try to achieve the same in other countries in Europe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In Q&#038;A after her talk, Paivi said Finnish Prosecutor General Raija Toiviainen is expected to push the case as far as possible because the latter has said identity politics is her top priority. Paivi\u2019s legal help from Alliance Defending Freedom International has told The Federalist they are also prepared to appeal her case as far as possible should she lose.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"662\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/IE22-2761.jpg\" alt=\"Paivi Rasanen speaking at the Issues Etc. conference\" class=\"wp-image-277008\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/IE22-2761.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/IE22-2761-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/IE22-2761-768x508-1.jpg 768w\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"row justify-content-center g-0 mt-10\"><figcaption class=\"col-12 col-md-6 body-xs px-15 pe-md-0 ps-md-30 py-15 m-0\">Image courtesy Issues, Etc.<\/figcaption><div class=\"col-12 col-md-6\">\n<p>\n        <i class=\"mdi mdi-camera me-10\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><br \/>\n        <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Image Credit<\/span>Image courtesy Issues, Etc.\n      <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<h2>Persecution Amplifies Word of God\u2019s Mercy for Sinners<\/h2>\n<p>Toiviainen claims agreeing with the Bible that sodomy is a sin is a criminal expression of hatred towards homosexuals. Paivi and her legal team have pointed out that if the court interprets the law this way, it will <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/11\/23\/in-case-with-global-implications-finland-puts-christians-on-trial-for-their-faith\/\">effectively outlaw Christianity<\/a> and free speech in Finland.<\/p>\n<p>Rather than rejecting homosexuals, as she\u2019s been accused in court, Paivi glows with happiness when relating that gay people have disclosed her \u201cBible trial\u201d has brought them to faith. In speeches and court testimony, Paivi has emphasized she not only bears no animosity towards homosexuals or transsexuals, she earnestly desires them to join her Christian family by receiving the eternal life that Jesus Christ offers freely to every person.<\/p>\n<p>Paivi has been dragged into European courts and smeared in the press for years as a spewer of \u201chate speech.\u201d Yet while battling severe jet lag that her husband said often gives her migraines, Paivi expressed not even a flicker of animosity towards her persecutors in Chicago.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, when The Federalist asked if her three-year and counting prosecution might be orchestrated by political enemies, she seemed stumped. She conferred with her husband and finally suggested she was simply an easy target as a well-known figure in Finland.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn all my career I have been known as a Christian and as a biblical Christian who doesn\u2019t accept abortion and homosexual acts and so on,\u201d Paivi told The Federalist. \u201cAnd that\u2019s why I think that perhaps it is the reason why the prosecutor has targeted just me.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Family Unites to Fight for Other Families<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cne.news\/artikel\/569-rasanen-prosecuted-for-tweet-keep-testifying-your-faith\">Acknowledging<\/a> the Bible directs that only men serve as pastors has never tied Paivi to the kitchen\u2014although perhaps she\u2019d like to retire there given the suffering her political career has inflicted. Niilo prodded Paivi into running for office nearly three decades ago to try to stop Finland from forcing doctors like her to perform abortions, they told The Federalist.<\/p>\n<p>Niilo Rasanen is a pastor and theology professor at a Lutheran Bible college. Niilo\u2019s widowed mother lived with the couple while their children were young, and Paivi\u2019s parents moved nearby and \u201chelped a lot,\u201d Paivi said. That, with Niilo\u2019s flexibility while earning his doctorate, allowed Paivi to enter public service without sacrificing their children\u2019s needs, they said.<\/p>\n<p>During the five years when Niilo was writing his dissertation, \u201che was always at home when the children came home\u201d from school, Paivi noted. Paivi and Niilo occasionally pulled out their phones to translate Finnish words into English or check they were using the right words.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/IMG_4513-Copy-1024x768-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-277044\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/IMG_4513-Copy-1024x768-1.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/IMG_4513-Copy-300x225-1.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/IMG_4513-Copy-768x576-1.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/IMG_4513-Copy.jpg 1200w\" \/><\/p>\n<p><figcaption class=\"col-12 col-md-6 body-xs px-15 pe-md-0 ps-md-30 py-15 m-0 text-center\">Niilo and Paivi Rasanen in Chicago, Illinois, in June 2022. (Joy Pullmann \/ The Federalist)<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>In response to a question from the Chicago audience, Paivi revealed threats against her family. When she campaigned against child pornography, she said, a convicted pedophile entered their front yard and threatened their children: \u201cIt was quite a difficult time because we had to keep safe our children and they were a little bit afraid many years after that.\u201d The most violent of the recent threats include a rape threat against her son, she said.<\/p>\n<p>These external threats may have helped strengthen family bonds. Paivi and Niilo\u2019s faces light up when they talk about their now-grown children, whom the Rasanens say are a great joy and regularly text their parents Bible verses and prayers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe task is communal, we do it together,\u201d Niilo said of their marriage and family. \u201cIt has been so busy and hard time in this politic area\u2014very, very busy, very long days. If you are not doing it together, it will not work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think what has been a great power in our life is that we have felt that these callings and tasks that we have, that they are common,\u201d Paivi added.<\/p>\n<h2>From Church Only at Christmas to Global Witness<\/h2>\n<p>Born in 1959, Paivi grew up in a remote area near Finland\u2019s border with Sweden, in the village of Konnunsuo. Her father was the agricultural director for a prison there. He oversaw the prisoners raising vegetables and animals to feed and support themselves. Paivi remembers watching piglets being born as a girl.<\/p>\n<p>Her parents only went to church at Christmas, she said, but she learned the Bible from Sunday School and at prison church services. Her family also hosted missionaries to the prison, and they explained Christianity to Paivi and her two younger siblings.<\/p>\n<p>A skilled student, especially in mathematics, young Paivi read all the books in her tiny village library that was open only two hours per week, she said. An adult biography of Nobel Prize-winning Polish scientist Marie Curie particularly inspired Paivi: \u201cI admired her. I thought that I would like to be like her, to do something great.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At the University of Helsinki, she studied both mathematics and medicine for a half year, but it was too much. So Paivi decided to focus on medicine because \u201cI wanted to work with people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Organizing up to 70 Christian students for five years of weekly door-to-door evangelism in university helped deepen her Christian beliefs, Paivi told The Federalist: \u201cIt was a very important time for me because there were students from different faculties and I had to defend my views, and I had to know [the] Bible because they asked difficult questions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She met Niilo doing summer missionary work among immigrants in London, and they married in February 1985, a year after Paivi started working as a doctor. They welcomed their children in 1988, 1990, 1992, 1994, and 1996.<\/p>\n<p>Because Paivi kept organizing debates and speakers about abortion among fellow medical students and doctors, the Christian Democrat political party asked her to run for office. The Christian Democrats are a small party that focuses on faith and family. From 2011 to 2015, Paivi served as Finland\u2019s Minister of the Interior as part of a coalition government.<\/p>\n<h2>She Fights Like a Woman<\/h2>\n<p>Paivi has fought steadfastly not by disposition, but by compunction. She and Niilo chuckled quietly when noting that in university she flatly refused all public speaking asks and leadership positions.<\/p>\n<p>In person the two Finns are true to type and their \u201cMinnesota nice\u201d American cousins: polite, soft-spoken, and deferential. In Chicago, Paivi and Niilo attempted for some 15 minutes to get the Uber app to work on their Finnish cell phones before they could be prevailed upon by this journalist to accept a ride.<\/p>\n<p>She would have walked the mile to the conference, Paivi assured, as they had the day before, but that morning\u2019s rain would bedraggle her hair and dress right before her speech. After a bit of emotional discomfort at allegedly imposing followed by a quick, rain-unaffected arrival, Paivi laughed gently, expressed thanks, and commented that this would be a good anecdote for The Federalist profile.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\">\n<p><figcaption class=\"col-12 col-md-6 body-xs px-15 pe-md-0 ps-md-30 py-15 m-0 text-center\">Paivi Rasanen during audience Q&#038;A in Chicago. Because English is a second language for Paivi, she was given the written questions in advance.<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Although she\u2019s a public figure who regularly appears on TV, including a variety show that dressed her in a bear costume to sing to her grandchildren (she showed photographic evidence), Paivi habitually asks for others\u2019 thoughts rather than discussing her own. It\u2019s yet another contradiction to women\u2019s mag-celebrated attributes: expressing her femininity not only doesn\u2019t abrade Paivi\u2019s character, it complements it.<\/p>\n<p>Paivi doesn\u2019t assert herself as a \u201cgirl boss\u201d who assumes masculine prosthetics, despite years of public leadership that could have taught her to do so. Her apparent emotional security in being the woman God made her bestows its own authority and charm.<\/p>\n<h2>Only Men and Women Fit Perfectly Together<\/h2>\n<p>That acceptance of one\u2019s sex as a gift from God is also a foundation of the theological booklet that helped land Paivi in court indefinitely. Leftists foment a war between the sexes, but the Bible <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Ephesians%205&#038;version=KJV\">teaches<\/a> that love means total self-giving: husbands sacrifice everything to love their wives and wives submit to their husbands as they do to God. The true war is not <em>between<\/em> the sexes, but <em>against<\/em> them, and in war clear chains of command are necessary for survival.<\/p>\n<p>The 1960s feminist war fomented between the sexes has expanded into a war on sex itself. Now even recognizing the differences between men and women and the exclusive fertility of natural marriage is heading towards being criminalized across the West, and with it the Christianity that protects and celebrates these natural realities.<\/p>\n<p>When she wrote the booklet, Paivi was already well-known as a Christian member of Parliament representing Hame, a rural Finnish province about an hour north of Helsinki. Pastor <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/11\/23\/in-case-with-global-implications-finland-puts-christians-on-trial-for-their-faith\/\">Juhana Pohjola<\/a>, in 2021 elected bishop of Finland\u2019s non-state Lutheran church, had asked Rasanen to respond to proposals for government licensing of homosexual relationships. Here was a government endorsement of severing natural biological bonds between parents and children that raised both political and theological concerns.<\/p>\n<p>Rasanen\u2019s resulting 24-page booklet is a succinct summary of Christian sexual ethics. \u201cPeople who submit themselves to God\u2019s guidance in the Bible are repeatedly amazed at how the very Bible teachings hardest to understand contain God\u2019s deep wisdoms,\u201d Rasanen writes in the English translation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo choice of policies is ethically neutral,\u201d she notes. \u201c\u2026In actuality, the acceptance of homosexual partnerships meant a more profound change in values than was willingly acknowledged at the time.\u201d For example, she notes, in Finland those proposing a homosexual partnerships act promised it would affect adults only. Yet immediately after the act passed, the proponents moved to make taxpayers pay for lesbians to be artificially inseminated and for homosexual couples to adopt children who could never know either a father or mother.<\/p>\n<p>The act\u2019s proponents also promised Finland\u2019s state church could maintain Christianity\u2019s historic teachings if state recognition of homosexual couples passed. Paivi\u2019s trial today, under a law passed seven years <em>after<\/em> the booklet was published, directly refutes that claim. It also highlights how impossible it is to reconcile the hard-won natural law framework that protects everyone equally with the identity politics that provides special rights to only government-favored groups.<\/p>\n<h2>Seeking an Internet Interdiction<\/h2>\n<p>Writing the booklet is one of three charges Toiviainen has filed against Paivi. It forms the sole count against Pohjola, the pastor who published the booklet. The two other counts against Paivi relate to her tweet of a Bible verse at the nominally Lutheran state church for sponsoring a gay pride parade and comments in a public radio debate she participated in years ago.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><\/figure>\n<p>In 2019, several Finns lodged complaints against Paivi\u2019s tweet. Police investigated, interrogating Paivi about her beliefs three times. Although the police ultimately recommended against prosecuting Paivi, prosecutors sifted through her three-decade public record. They dug up the three alleged hate crimes, and charged her.<\/p>\n<p>The charges against Paivi fall under the legal category of \u201cwar crimes and crimes against humanity.\u201d The prosecutors have asked for Paivi\u2019s writings and audio clips to be completely banned from the internet and for her, Pohjola, and his church to be fined up to a third of their annual incomes, but courts could put Paivi in prison for up to six years if she\u2019s found guilty. Pohjola could be imprisoned for up to two years.<\/p>\n<p>During Paivi and Pohjola\u2019s trial in early 2022, thousands of Finnish supporters gathered in Helsinki outside the court. Free speech supporters in other countries rallied at Finnish embassies. The American Family Research Council <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncregister.com\/cna\/christian-mp-acquitted-on-all-charges-after-finland-s-bible-tweet-trial\">sent<\/a> Pastor Andrew Brunson, whom Turkey detained for two years for preaching Christianity, to give Paivi a pledge of prayers from Christians around the world. U.S. members of Congress, international human rights groups, and coalitions of religious believers <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/11\/10\/lawmakers-demand-u-s-punish-finland-for-criminalizing-christianity-as-a-hate-crime\/\">have also petitioned<\/a> the Finnish government to stop prosecuting Rasanen and Pohjola\u2019s human rights to free speech and religious exercise.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is important that we have the freedom of speech and freedom of religion,\u201d Paivi told The Federalist in Chicago. \u201cFreedom of speech because it is important for everyone. It is important for every minority and majority. For Christians, it is crucial because we have the commandments of Jesus to tell the good gospel to all people\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlso I think that it is important to respect in society also everyone\u2019s right to speak and argue and oppose you,\u201d she continued. \u201cSo this is [a] fundamental issue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>For more on this case, read <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/11\/23\/in-case-with-global-implications-finland-puts-christians-on-trial-for-their-faith\/\">this profile of Bishop Pohjola<\/a>, who spoke to The Federalist in person in November 2021.<\/em><\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<div class=\"article-author-description fst-italic\">\n  Joy Pullmann is executive editor of The Federalist, a happy wife, and the mother of six children. <a href=\"https:\/\/forms.gle\/iX1dsZnedpJjPMoP7\">Sign up here to get early access<\/a> to her next ebook, &#8220;101 Strategies For Living Well Amid Inflation.&#8221; Her bestselling ebook is &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/payhip.com\/b\/R1JL\">Classic Books for Young Children<\/a>.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Mrs. Pullmann identifies as native American and gender natural. She is also the author of &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Education-Invasion-Parents-Control-American\/dp\/1594038813\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&#038;qid=1486730068&#038;sr=8-1&#038;keywords=education+invasion\">The Education Invasion: How Common Core Fights Parents for Control of American Kids<\/a>,&#8221; from Encounter Books. In 2013-14 she won a Robert Novak journalism fellowship for in-depth reporting on Common Core national education mandates. <\/p>\n<p>Joy is a grateful graduate of the Hillsdale College honors and journalism programs.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paivi Rasanen must make God laugh. The 27-year member of Finland\u2019s Parliament on trial for tweeting a Bible verse confounds so many pagan slogans. 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