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On This Day: The Finnish Yle TV2 channel's Ajankohtainen kakkonen current affairs program... (2010)

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On October 12, 2010: The Finnish Yle TV2 channel's Ajankohtainen kakkonen current affairs program airs controversial Homoilta episode (literally "gay night"), which leads to the resignation of almost 50,000 Finns from the Evangelical Lutheran Church....

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