Finnish Lutheran pastors ready to bless gay partnerships

Earlier this winter, I answered some questions from Suomen Lehtiyhtymä, a Finnish news conglomerate, and the results of this gallup were published just after Christmas. Apparently, we were 106 pastors from the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland who answered the questions, and over half of us are ready to bless homosexual partnerships. In the greater Helsinki area, the ratio is two out of three. This is, of course, encouraging.

The national broadcasting company YLE published the news on its website, and one of the comments there merits a countercomment. At the dateline 2008-12-27 16:02, the alias man o kvinna = barn (i.e. "man & woman = children") claims that homosexuality only occurs among human beings, not animals. I'd like to refer to my post Gayness is natural from two years ago, where I quoted an article in the Times, stating:

[...] homosexuality had been observed in no fewer than 1,500 species, and well documented in 500 of them. [...] “There are things that are more contrary to nature than homosexuality, things humans alone do — such as having religion or sleeping in pyjamas.”

The same piece of news was also published and discussed in e.g. Helsingin Sanomat and Vasabladet.