perjantai 28. marraskuuta 2014

Proud to be a Finn!

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Now I'll have to tell you how happy I am: the parliament of Finland voted for the same-sex marriage and the right for gay couples to adopt a child and they voted for YES! This is very good news!!! These things have been available in the other Scandinavian countries for a while now and the same-sex marriage has even been legal in some countries that are usually more conservative than Finland like France, GBR, Belgium, and even Spain, not to mention the liberal Holland. Even if this reform is happening awkwardly late I'm still very proud of Finland! :)

We Finns are not very religious so the majority can't even refer to the Bible. Anyhow I do not find ANY good argument against the same-sex marriage nor against the same-sex couples adopting a child so I can't see why this will be legalized in Finland so late. Besides if you look at other countries, like the liberal Scandinavian countries and Holland, there are absolutely no cons about this reform - actually these are the countries that are topping the equality studies, they are ranked as the best places in the whole world to live in and they are even economically among the most developed countries. And when it comes to some people arguing that it's not good for the kids to be raised up in gay family there are several studies that show that kids raised in rainbow families can be perfectly fine and have a really good life just like the kids who have a mom and a dad. Their psyche won't get disturbed and they'll have a loving family where they can grow up like anyone of us. Some people even claim that those kids will be bullied at school, but maybe it's exactly the kids' of those people claiming that who'll most likely be the ones bullying, and if those people are aware of that, they can probably do something about it, like change their attitudes. Besides I'm pretty sure that those orphans would rather have two dad's or two moms than have no family at all. Can you imagine living in an institution with changing personnel and environment, without a feeling of a safe and a stable environment - I do not think anyone of us would like to experience that. So, I think this reform is exactly what is the best for the kid. I definitely think that everyone should have the right to a loving and caring family since that's the most important thing a person has in his/her life! So for orphans this is only a good thing, and what's best for those poor kids should be our base when we think about this reform.

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And the other things is the people living in same-sex relationships. First of all I thought that everyone is equal in front of god and what is more, what kind of an unfair and old-fashioned society is it in the 21st century that doesn't allow gay couples to have the same human rights that hetero couples? The more I think of it the more ashamed of it I get. Seriously, only because of your sexual preferences, that kinds that won't harm anyone else, you are some kind of an outlaw or secondary citizen? And what are the arguments....? And when people say it's unnatural that's just not true since there's always been gay couples and there always will be, besides the human being is a lot older than Christianity that does not accept gay couples. And what I heard is that previously, before the Christianity, same-sex relationships were allowed in some societies so gay couples being seen as something wrong or unnatural is actually a pretty young concept so it's about time to make a change to this! Besides if the same-sex marriage would have been allowed for a while now it wouldn't be a problem anymore. People, I mean the skeptic ones, would see that their lives wouldn't get affected: they would still drink their coffee in the mornings, go to work, pay the taxes and what not. But for gay couples this is a big thing: first of all they will be just like anyone in the society meaning that they aren't discriminated anymore. And they can finally build a family, save a poor kid from those orphanages and live happily ever after! What could be better than that? Besides I hate writing "they", like we'd have to divide the society into gays and heteros...

Actually I think it's even absurd that we have to have arguments for this reform, it should be obvious that this reform will be done. It's shameful how much this has gotten attention in the media; it shouldn't be like that. But now we can change it and we will. And it's horrible how negative and gross opinions some people have and I'm not even going to go into those arguments, sometimes I just get really sad and worried about our future: if those narrow minded people are members of our parliament, how many other narrow minded people is out there to vote for them...! Well, now I hope that we can show the skeptic people that this won't affect their lives at all, only gay couples and orphans and only in a positive way. And as an economist-to-be I'll have to say that since this reform won't make anyone's life worse than it was, the the whole society (in Finland in this case) will gain since the bell-being increases.

So finally I'd like to end this post by quoting the hippies in the 70's:
"Peace and love" and what not! ;D





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