
Registered: July 07, 2003
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Well, the Bible also says your will go to hell for many different things and condemns other things that we think are weird things to condemn today, so are you really going to base your ideas of right and wrong on the Bible? Go for it if you want, but not everyone is Christian, so you must tolerate others and their lifestyles. Food for thought (quoted from Mercedes Lackey's Magic's Pawn, p279, from The Last Herald Mage trilogy):
"There is in you a fear, a shame, placed there by your own doubts and the thoughts of one who knew no better. I tell you to think on this: the shay'a'chern pairing occurs in nature. How then, 'unnatural'? Usual, no; and not desirable for the species, else it would die out for lack of offspring. But not unnatural. The beasts of the fields are innocent as man can never be, who has the knowledge of good and evil and the choice between, and they do not cast out of their ranks the shay'a'chern. There was between you and your shay'kreth'ashke much love - only love. There is no shame in loving. "This I think I have learned: where there is love, the form does not matter, and the gods are pleased. This I have observed: what occurs in nature, comes by the hand of nature, and if the gods did not approve, it would not be there. I give you these things as food for your heart and mind." Shay'a'chern is a term to describe a homosexual person in the Tayledras. Shay'kreth'ashke means "lifebonded" in Tayledras. This is a type of your "one-true-love" idea, only on a much deeper level. If one pair of the lifebonded dies, the other usually dies soon after from heartbreak.
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