@pedromj It's complicated. The underlying related concepts are understood somewhat differently in Scandinavia than in North America, even.

For example, there's a strong cultural collectivist streak, and for a long while, there has been a general consensus that a social safety net would be a good idea. This tends to spread economic risks around and, therefore, improve everybody's general freedom. On the other hand, because this is a tradition, the right-wingers don't rail against it, but seek to twist it to their ends, often in anti-freedom ways. A century ago, Finland was one of the most eager countries to enforce the original Prohibition, and even now, both Finland and Sweden are running the War On Drugs in such an aggressive manner that these two countries are some of the few EU members where delivering grey market estrogen by post is not really an option.

Furthermore, there's the relatively new development of international-style hard right people, a bunch who, ironically, call themselves "true Finns" or "ancient Finns", and in this particular case, they're the party most eagerly egging Räsänen on. (Curiously, she is not actually their member; she's a Christian Democrat; a relatively small party that used to be less radical, but has been turning more hardline partly due to American influence.)

Finally, Finland is interesting in that it's a democracy with a national church. It has never been a monarchy since independence, like virtually all other church-entangled countries have been — there's kind of an inherent connection between monarchs, churches, and the Divine Right of Kings —, but nevertheless, the Finnish Evangelical Lutheran Church and the Finnish Orthodox Church are officially established churches, with special legal duties and privileges, and with some funding coming from the national budget. In practice, the Orthodox Church has much fewer members and much less influence than the Evangelical Church, though; its status is effectively due to grandfathering. Before independence, the Russian Orthodox Church was the established church, and unabashedly pushed for the Divine Right of the Czar. (The current Finnish Orthodox Church is aligned with the patriarchy of Constantinopolis rather than Moscow, though.) But I digress.

So, one of the interesting things about having an integrated national church is, the Parliament can just pass laws that would apply to the church. This is not a common way for church policy to change, though; the sort of people who would run national churches tend to have a good nose for knowing which way the wind is blowing. (That's how they know when to shut up about the divine right of kings, after all.) And, as Nordic countries have adopted gender equality and marriage equality as relatively consensual good ideas, the major Nordic established churches have been fairly diligent in obeying these principles out of their good will, lest there be a big legal showdown (which they'd probably lose). For Nordic churches, ordaining women or performing same-gender marriages is no big deal — and to some people, this is Against the Natural Order of Things.

So now, hopefully, you have some better idea as to where Räsänen comes into play. She's trying to be more Catholic than the Pope in a country that kicked the Pope out centuries ago.

@pedromj Oh! There's a potential American parallel: Finnish culture has many of the social elements of the Amische folks' culture, just not the religiously-eschewing-modern-technology-such-as-buttons parts.

But pursuing social conformity and eschewing outsiders goes so far that there's even pockets of unique genetic disorders, officially euphemised as 'Finnish heritage diseases', due to (in these pockets) a small number of families intermarrying for centuries, and not integrating with new comers. It's not universal, of course, but this streak definitely exists.

For context, while having heritage diseases is not exactly culturally unique, it is relatively rare among modern Western people, most of whom have been intensively travelling and genetically integrating as a huge pool for thousands of years of warfare. Other than the Finnish and Amische ones, there's about half a dozen known recurring genetic conditions known that relate to Ashkenazi Jewish heritage, Tay-Sachs probably being the best-known one, and a couple that relate to royal heritage, hæmophilia and daltonism probably being the best-known ones. As the Finnish Heritage Diseases go, there's about thirty five specific identified ones that are rare in the general population, but keep recurring in Finland, especially in the Eastern parts.

Sometimes, you see the geographic regions particularly associated with FHDs summarised as 'close to the Russian border', but that can be a little bit of red herring; the other unifying trait is, theses are the wilder, relatively rural, parts that were ultimately settled a couple of centuries ago, and, well, have not been particularly attractive for new comers usually also for other, geographical and economic, reasons besides the risk of not being socially accepted.

OTOH, the Finnish social values tend to also offer relatively good healthcare to the affected people, insomuch as healthcare can help. If you haven't yet heard of it, one of the positive examples of the Finnish way of doing healthcare is the Baby Box, full of useful items and carefully engineered to also work as a safe first bed for a newborn baby. (Kela is Finland's social welfare agency.)