A citizens initiative has forced the Finnish Parliament to reconsider a marriage equality bill.
Gay Star News reports:
Finland’s Parliament will consider the issue of same-sex marriage after supporters gathered 162,000 signatures in favor of it in the Scandinavian nation of 5.4 million people. The figure represents the largest number of signatures collected in favor of a citizen’s initiative in Finland and only 50,000 signatures, or less than a third of 162,000, were needed for the Parliament to have to consider the initiative.
Finland is currently the only Scandinavian country that doesn’t allow full marriage equality.
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