Over the rainbow

This article was written in response to ignorant statements made by a local MP, claiming homosexuality to be a curable disease. The article was published in Estonian in Õhtuleht 06.04.2013.

Hieronymus Bosch - The Garden of
Earthly Delights. Source: Wikimedia

in a kingdom far-far away, there… And this is where the stories part. In one, there are dragons, in another there are witches, and in the third one — kind fairies. Fairy-tales reflect beliefs about the world around us, and it is not possible to say that one of them is more precise, more correct or better in any way than another. The value and magic of fairy-tales comes exactly from there being many different ones, and there always being room for new ones, that will not replace any, but add to the magical-mystical world over the rainbow. And even though this claim is not entirely correct from the standpoint of folkloristics, let it illustrate the larger one — there are domains, where multitude of opinions is the valuable resource, and there is no truth as such, but each description, point of view gives new information. Wonderful information, that has given birth to the most beautiful and moving works of art, books, songs — the best achievements of human culture, that life would perhaps not even be worth living without.