I'd say a minority of people have anything against homosexuality, trans people might meet more opposition. We had a vicar who was trans, but she resigned from her position as some members had left the parish and continued as an author.
The good in this that she was allowed to work as the vicar even while being trans, but some were opposing it, but I could assume religious people are more old fashioned.
As mentioned, in the last two presidential elections we had an openly gay candidate from Green party who is in a relationship with a foreign man. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pekka_Haavisto
First time, in 2012, he got 37,4% of votes in the final election.
The second attempt, 2018, he got only 12,4% of votes but this was mainly due to the popularity of the current president, Pekka Haavisto was still the second most popular candidate.
The "gay marriage" was allowed in 2017, before this we could have "registered relationships" for gays and lesbians, but finally the law was changed to allow equal rights for marriage for all - including the right for adoption.
Finns are somewhat used to homosexuality, as some of the Finnish music favorites are openly gay and it has not diminished their popularity in the grand public (even with favorites in ages of 40-65).
The largest issue currently seen with the law is that to be allowed for the legal change of gender, you need to be sterilized. There are political movements demanding this requirement to be removed OR even removing the "legal gender", that the state and legal documents would never have to contain the gender.
That is pretty cool to hear. I have to say it is not the situation in the US. There is actually still a surprising amount of the "homosexuality is a sin against God and a moral failing that needs to be corrected" attitude here, and the presence of large groups of people holding that belief kind of shifts the whole scale down. I mean, that belief is often held right up into the upper levels of state and federal government here, in private if not always in public.
Yes, this is Finland.
I'd say a minority of people have anything against homosexuality, trans people might meet more opposition. We had a vicar who was trans, but she resigned from her position as some members had left the parish and continued as an author.
The good in this that she was allowed to work as the vicar even while being trans, but some were opposing it, but I could assume religious people are more old fashioned.
As mentioned, in the last two presidential elections we had an openly gay candidate from Green party who is in a relationship with a foreign man.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pekka_Haavisto
First time, in 2012, he got 37,4% of votes in the final election.
The second attempt, 2018, he got only 12,4% of votes but this was mainly due to the popularity of the current president, Pekka Haavisto was still the second most popular candidate.
The "gay marriage" was allowed in 2017, before this we could have "registered relationships" for gays and lesbians, but finally the law was changed to allow equal rights for marriage for all - including the right for adoption.
Finns are somewhat used to homosexuality, as some of the Finnish music favorites are openly gay and it has not diminished their popularity in the grand public (even with favorites in ages of 40-65).
The largest issue currently seen with the law is that to be allowed for the legal change of gender, you need to be sterilized. There are political movements demanding this requirement to be removed OR even removing the "legal gender", that the state and legal documents would never have to contain the gender.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_Finland
In general I think at LGBT+ are well accepted, even though more work is required, but most issues are constantly under work.
That is pretty cool to hear. I have to say it is not the situation in the US. There is actually still a surprising amount of the "homosexuality is a sin against God and a moral failing that needs to be corrected" attitude here, and the presence of large groups of people holding that belief kind of shifts the whole scale down. I mean, that belief is often held right up into the upper levels of state and federal government here, in private if not always in public.
That's a real shame and sad. I'm hoping more people will instead find love and caring towards LGBT+ instead of claiming it is evil and wicked.
Government should work for the good of all and not to support pointless hate.
I wish all good for the entire US with better attitude towards other human beings.