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Finland's president has signed a law allowing same sex marriage. It's the first law adopted by the parliament as a result of the initiative of citizens. Over 160,000 people signed a petition demanding it.

President Sauli Niinist rubber-stamped the gender-neutral marriage law on Friday, after it was supported by parliament last December. However, the law will only come into force in March 2017, because parliament will have to revise current laws and regulations concerning health and social care in accordance with the new bill.

"It's incredible," Aija Salo, secretary-general of the LGBTI group National Seta told the Gay Star News. "We are, of course, extremely happy with this result. Not only because of the changes of the Marriage Act itself, but because this carries a huge symbolic value."

The bill is the first in Finland's history propelled by people power. The necessary amount of signatures for this to happen is 50,000, but an overwhelming 167,000 people signed the petition for the bill and made parliament review the draft of the law.

"This was a very large and unique campaign; it was the first citizen's movement. The public spoke," Salo said. "It's very important to a lot of people personally and also symbolically, and people are very happy."


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LGTBI? What's the I stand for?? I've also seen a Q on the end?
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Chevy_Scottsdale wrote LGTBI? What's the I stand for?? I've also seen a Q on the end?


I - Intersex

Q - ***/Questioning
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Great, one country closer to a more accepting society.

Meanwhile, the US is so busy blaming Obama for everything, that we still haven't legalized same sex marriage.

Maybe some day...
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Well this is great. Glad to see this.
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Clones wrote Great, one country closer to a more accepting society.

Meanwhile, the US is so busy blaming Obama for everything, that we still haven't legalized same sex marriage.

Maybe some day...


Obama is terrible. He's degraded this country quite a bit.
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Well this is brilliant, unfortunately there are still people like this in the world.

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Woodkid wrote Well this is brilliant, unfortunately there are still people like this in the world.

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For some, things like this is unimaginable. This is unheard of, men and men don't get marry or woman and woman. Their whole life they have been taught marriage is between male and female, and this is against peoples beliefs (like mine). Is it ok for someone to say those nasty words, no of course not. But when people try to make everyone accept gay marriage, that is never going to work. Some people won't, I won't does that mean I hate them, of course not its none of my business on what they do and vice versa. I don't have the power to say what is right and wrong for someone else. But when shows do this, people are going to react and they are sick of all this gay marriage agenda everywhere they go, I'm sick of it because it gets old. Same with politician ads in election time for example.

One thing I don't like at all is bringing children into it.
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Woodkid wrote Well this is brilliant, unfortunately there are still people like this in the world.

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For some, things like this is unimaginable. This is unheard of, men and men don't get marry or woman and woman. Their whole life they have been taught marriage is between male and female, and this is against peoples beliefs (like mine). Is it ok for someone to say those nasty words, no of course not. But when people try to make everyone accept gay marriage, that is never going to work. Some people won't, I won't does that mean I hate them, of course not its none of my business on what they do and vice versa. I don't have the power to say what is right and wrong for someone else. But when shows do this, people are going to react and they are sick of all this gay marriage agenda everywhere they go, I'm sick of it because it gets old. Same with politician ads in election time for example.

One thing I don't like at all is bringing children into it.


The 'Gay agenda' is a silly invention created by homophobes to justify their bigotry.

Society is becoming more accepting, that's it. There is no agenda.
Gay people don't get together in underground groups and discuss how they can infect the media with homosexuality.
As it is becoming more accepted creators of shows and films are bound to incorporate it into their stories more often.
I also think there's a lot of confirmation bias going on. Off the top of my head I can think of 3 TV shows with gay relationships in, and 2 films.
Is this really something for homophobes to get so worked up about?

Why don't you have the same reaction to murders on TV? Is that not bad? It certainly goes against the Christian religion yet you don't see them up in arms about that.
One of those TV shows, Game of Thrones, has incest, a little boy being pushed out of a tower, the murder of a mother and her unborn baby, and literal exploding heads, only one of those things gained much attention, and that was the incest, and the only reason that did gain so much attention is because of where they were doing it.
Why is homosexuality such a huge deal alongside all of these other things which gain no attention, but all are condemned in the Bible?

I don't care if everyone accepts gay marriage or not, obviously it would be a much better world if everyone did, they just have to allow it, and not let their opinion get in the way of a human right.

Explain why you don't like children being brought into it.
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