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Li shares her final words of wisdom. Comes out of the closet. Urges all people to be honest about their sexuality. Predicts the gay marriage debate. [Between 548 and 540 B.C.]

1. And it came to pass that I, Li, shall share some thoughts upon these plates, even thoughts that seemeth good.

2. And I have had little to say upon these records, for if ye search back throughout the previous pages of these plates, yea, ye shall find that I contributed little to the record.

3. Nevertheless, I have advanced in age and find it to be wisdom in me that I share my true feelings before I leave this world.

4. For I have been a whore for the space of my entire life, even from my days in Nahom up to my life in the Lamanite village. And I have given myself to many men, which thing was pleasing unto me, and unto the men I did service, yea, even have I given myself for money and for plasure, and I did thinketh it to be my duty to love many men. Nevertheless, it must needs be that I share my true feelings.

5. For inasmuch as I have known many men, yea, even hundreds of men, and even thousands of men, and even though I did find exceeding joy knowing many men, yea, behold I loved them not, for my heart did belong to women always. 

6. And when I did lie naked with men, and did cleave unto them, and commit whoredoms unto them, behold, I had visions of women, and did pretend for them to be women, for I did lust after the flesh of women. 

7. And I did fear to share my feelings with others, for it is an abomination to lust after the flesh of those who are of the same gender. For those who do this thing suffer many iniquities, even are they called cruel names, and thought to be wicked, and many do say 'kill the person who doth transgress by lusting after the flesh of the same gender.' For it is the law of Moses to kill men who desire to know men, and women who desire to know women. And even those who practice not the law of Moses do desire to kill us anyway because we be different, and because people do enjoy killing others. 

8. And it matters not whether ye shall be a Nephite or a Lamanite, a Mulekite or a Zoramite, a Shemite or an Ishmaelite; for all tribes doth consider it an abomination, yea, even a wicked perversion to be a man who lusts after men, or a woman who lusts after women. And the punishment for this act is death on the spot. And this is a universal law, wherefore I shall find no allies in my feelings, even from any tribe.

9. Wherefore, I am an old lady now, and my mother hath passed on to the great spirit in the sky, and my sisters shall not care that I desire female flesh, for they love me unconditionally. Wherefore, I shall tell the truth of my sexuality for the first time upon these plates. 

10. And now that I have written this great secret, yea, I feel a heaven burden lift from me, and I admonish all to deny not their base urges, for it is who ye are, and live not thy life in frustration. 

11. And I do predict that it shall not be for thousands of years before those who doth love those of the same gender shall share their true feelings and fear not being stoned to death. 

12. And I do predict many politicians, and religious leaders shall oppose unions betwixt two men, or betwixt two women. But yea, the time shall come, even within less than three-thousand years, that men shall marry men, and women shall marry women, and none shall stone them to death.

13.  And it be best to follow thy heart. Wherefore, ignore the wicked politicians and religious leaders who seek to deny thee of thy liberty, for thou shouldst be free to arouse thy secret parts any way thou doth desire.

14. And now that I have spoken the truth upon these plates, yea, I am exceedingly happy, and I shall now rest, and await the great and beautiful goddesses in the sky who shall receive me. 

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