So, the preparations for the Finnish gender neutral marriage law that passed a while ago have been done and the law will come into effect next March. The law was based on a citizen motion - a while ago the Parliament was put under an obligation to process any citizen motion that has enough signatures. Processing naturally doesn’t mean that the Parliament has to support it. People fighting against the law gathered signatures for a citizen motion of their own for a law that would repeal the new law and this motion was now discussed in the Parliament. There is a
twitter account that summarises the arguments supporting the motion for repealing the law into handy memes.
Apparently the discussion wasn’t just about the marriage law. It seems the representatives also discussed the need for a new ”translaw” to repeal the current law that recognizes transsexuals' transitions only after they are sterilized which is grossly against their human rights. The representatives fighting to repeal the new marriage law are naturally not pleased with the prospect of not violating the human rights of the transpeople anymore either. Some of these comments are from when these people had the floor and some are responses to the parliamentarians supporting the basic human rights for everyone.
Behold the intellectual shine of the Finnish Parliament's conservative members:
Gateway to child marriages between siblings.
Human dignity is about who do we give human dignity.
You can’t speak for all gays so let’s forget the whole thing.
This law would discriminate against the gays who don’t want to marry.
As a doctor: if this discussion causes ”anxiety” it must be because of the mental health problems typical to the minorities.
The western culture will collapse
The western civilization will collapse.
Even equality must not be taken too far.
God created Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve
I was thinking that this is just like if no-one could say ”Volvo”.
Judeo-Christian tradition - common human thinking.
Apparently our future is a gender anarchy.
Gender is a social construct defined by the majority
Translaw would collapse the gender system.
Against the common sense.
We have a whole law for a small minority.
You could respect others. Is this just a dream in Finland?
You must change the law about citizen motions if this insults you so much.
So that this thing wouldn’t go into a chaos which nobody can take responsibility of anymore.
Do you want to take away our right to our opinion?
You can’t change the definition of a word. It has been already defined.
As a member of the Evangelical Lutheran church I demand that the Parliament fires the priests who act against the Bible.
Good luck suggesting a law that would allow you to do that.
It was quite a good speech but it was a bit accusatory.
Is there a god in this room? I thought so.
The anthropologists have found only one society in the world that has a different concept of marriage from the Western one.
A child’s human right to a father and a mother.
Actually, it’s just a 50-50 gender quota.
Changing the concept of marriage is not the last stop for the train.
Edit: fixed a couple of errors.