On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 01:47:21PM +0100, Brendan Lally wrote: > > - Do we allow same sex marriges (I can see valriel rejecting them)? > > I can only assume this is an attempt to provoke an off-topic flamewar. > > I shall simply state that it is ahistorical, without precedent in any > society that approximates the technological state where crossfire is > set (medieval europe/renaissence - with the odd 17th century-ism) As far as I remember, I've never heard of any society where they summoned demons, then casted meteor swarms on them, so I don't think any "history" argument is relevant, but if one is interested, wikipedia has an article about it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same-sex_marriage#History_of_same-sex_unions Personaly I don't see why it should not be allowed. If it is to be disallowed, sex has to be introduced first (and better text handling). /Sebastian -- .oooO o,o Oooo. Ad: http://dum.acc.umu.se/ ( ) \_/ ( ) (o_ "Life is not fair, but root \ ( /|\ ) / (o_ //\ password helps!" -- The BOFH \_) (_/ (/)_ V_/_