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Fri, 31 Dec 2010 22:47:39 +0000

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By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 00:54:00 +0000

And speaking of declining…I asked my nephew today why he didn’t go to Sunday classes. He told me that they are cancelled. There wasn’t anyone who wanted to teach the classes and not enough kids- so they didn’t start them back up this Fall. This is a good size city and capital in the South with a Bahai center. Truly sad! In a weird way, I’m actually heartbroken. This is not what I want to see, but oh well….

By: Craig Parke

Craig Parke — Sun, 24 Oct 2010 02:49:00 +0000

I think anyone who has been in the Baha’i Faith for a long time will recognize the Cosmic Wisdom of perhaps a New Divine Law in the next Dispensation “No two Baha’is should EVER be permitted to marry each other!” THAT would indeed be a very helpful and very useful social law to advance the general mental health of people! I think it will be one of the First Laws of the next Manifestation who will most certainly be a woman. She will utter it when she rides up onto Mt. Carmel on her Harley!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izYTskwE0As

By: pey

pey — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 20:14:00 +0000

The problem really is the balance between literalism and spirit. There is no balance at the present in the Bahai community. It has turned more and more to a literalist approach mimicking Christian evangelical churches. For instance, if an atheist wants to marry a Bahai, they can’t have a Bahai wedding. Unless the atheist lies and utters the words “We shall verily abide by the will of God”. So if no Bahai wedding, then what? Remove the Bahai’s voting rights? In the environment today that would be done in the Bahai community. Instead of finding compromise and working within the spirit of whatever “law”. This is biggere than the gay issue my friend. It is about the future of this small declining religion.

By: DCO

DCO — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 17:22:00 +0000

I think many of went thru that stage… “if I over compensate they won’t find me out”

Its my feeling that most of the homophobes in the Faith are really closet cases… especially the ones that feel that it is a choice…

By: DCO

DCO — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 17:20:00 +0000

Thanks Pey and Barb…

A question: Do you “support” atheist marriage? Interfaith marriage? Divorce and remarriage? All are legal, all go against Christian and/or traditional ideas about marriage, and yet there’s no “Christian” movement to deny marriage rights to atheists or people marrying outside their respective faiths or people divorcing and remarrying.

make me think…

A Baha’i can marry a non-Baha’i… but just can’t be gay or have a gay wedding?

By: Pey

Pey — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 14:17:00 +0000

Years ago, I attended a talk at conference in Texas by some Bahai psychiatrist. And he claimed the whole “gay suicide” thing was blown out of proportion. That really there weren’t that many people killing themselves. Uh, hello? ONE PERSON killing themselves is more than enough! But that is the attitude you get from these Bahais. I”ve heard other times. One poster here saying a while back that maybe that Bahai kids suicide was a “sweet release”. Another one, Masud was his name, telling me that I’m making the suicide thing up in order to get sympathy to push my point. THIS is how fundamentalist Bahais think. So I say tell the world how they think. Let everyone know. I wrote to Dan Savage and told him my story and thanked him for his post. I made sure that he knew it wasn’t only Christians who are creating this toxic, yet “polite”, environment in their communities. Throw in Bahais too!

By: Pey

Pey — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 13:42:00 +0000

It needs to be sent to the secretraiat of the Universal House of Justice. You can absolutely substitute “christian” above for “bahai”. Growing up I heard so many of those “polite” comments against gays from other Bahai kids. Sadly, I made them myself. Why? Because although I had been taught to speak like that agains minorities or other religions was wrong, I had learned the opposite when it came to gays and lesbians. The same shit happens day in and day out inside the Bahai community and yes I was also one of those Bahai gay children who was filled with despair!