...t demands my attention, the Bahá'à Faith is... less beautiful. For me, the Bahá'à Faith's moral assesment of homosexuality is the main reason why I came to distrust the Faith as an infallible mora...
Monday, 03 March 2008
...he contradictions between modern scientific findings and the Bahá’à teachings (e.g., regarding the nature of homosexuality , life on other planets, the biological ancestry of humans, or the luminif...
Thursday, 21 February 2008
Is there homophobia in the Baha’i community? In April this year Korey started a discussion on a Bahai Facebook group called “homophobia”. This is what he posted:
First Lessons in Re
Saturday, 31 July 2010
My Parents are a Shining Example
Sean is a gay third generation Baha’i who has been with his partner for ten years. He kindly agreed to give an interview about his experi
Tuesday, 06 July 2010
Quite a diversity of conceptions can coexist in a unified Baha'i community.
Gaming the Baha'i writings may be broadly defined as selection or suppression of particular passages by one or more perso
Thursday, 17 June 2010
I am an honest person. I wanted the faith to see how lovely my relationship was.
I have always been different... Whisperings in the nether regions of consciousness. I am Lesbian. In the bell shaped
Monday, 14 June 2010
I have also found it depressingly ironic that this issue (homosexuality ) is still even an issue at all in the Baha’i community.
I want to say that I am very glad that the discussion of homosexualit
Sunday, 06 June 2010
...ive Christians, mainly from America, who are eager to engage African clergy in their own domestic battle against homosexuality . David Bahati, the Ugandan MP who proposed its horrid bill, is a member o...
Tuesday, 01 June 2010
... to his NSA:
"Your same sex marriage in 2008 and statements that you have made on the Internet in support of homosexuality as an acceptable lifestyle for Baha'is shows that your position has chang...
Wednesday, 21 April 2010
A celebration in Bogota. Photo: Nestor Gomez / TIME
Its practitioners do not have rituals or authorities and seek the unity of all religions to achieve world peace.
They have no dogmas o
Tuesday, 06 April 2010
11.
Ed
(Baha'i Life/Friends, family, community)
Today is a wonderful day: my dear friend, Ed, is getting married.
This has been a long time coming, and his engagement holds an even more special meaning for me. You see, Ed and I used to live tog
Sunday, 28 March 2010
The role of faiths and their stances on other people’s sexuality, such as homosexuality , bisexuality and sodomy, will be discussed in “Is My Religion Cramping Your Sex Life?”
Several diverse fai
Friday, 22 January 2010
...out of the 590 people living in Cuba, there are enough Bahá’is to support not just one, but two different meetings of the faithful for worship and meditation.
To get to the Four Corners region o
Monday, 07 December 2009
Catherine Beyer
A recent Baha'i blog post gives a great explanation on how one can be true to the tenets of one's faith without diminishing the choices made by others.
Friday, 27 November 2009
OK. This is to show that I am not afraid of tackling the "big issues". But also, I must remind you, dear Reader, that this is only my own opinion, and is not in any way trying to be an authoritative p
Tuesday, 24 November 2009
...ort the human rights of all people, including gay Iranians, despite Baha'i teachings that condemn and sanction homosexuality .
Well, I'm calling you on it, people- here's a chance to literally pu...
Thursday, 01 October 2009
Guidl-7oGn4
Full story...
Friday, 28 August 2009
London July 4th 2009: Sarah Brown, wife of the British Prime Minister took part the London Pride March.
One of the most beautiful aspects of the Bahai Writings in my vie
Tuesday, 18 August 2009
...vitriol for the Baha'i Faith, which he mentioned as being hypocritical, especially regarding gender equality and homosexuality . I went to his blog and read through his posts, one of which can be found...
Wednesday, 12 August 2009
20.
Revoked
(Entries/Community and administration)
It is the purpose of Revoked to share a place where Bahá’ís who had their administrative rights removed can share their story.
Full story...
Monday, 01 June 2009
...as I have said before, the whole way our government approaches marriage is wrong. The state should not be performing marriages. All the state should do is grant lega
Friday, 10 April 2009
...ll employees to attend sexual orientation and gender identity diversity training where they are taught to accept homosexuality .”
Wow. You know what? That’s just about a corporate requi...
Sunday, 05 April 2009
When Philadelphia-born Alain L. Locke (1885-1954), the first African American to win a Rhodes Scholarship, wrote home to his mother shortly after beginning undergraduate life at Harvard, he did
Friday, 06 February 2009
... of the Philippines in Diliman, N.D. wrote to me about the Baha’i faith and its open-arms policy regarding homosexuality .
One day, I sent to a copy of the Baha’i Faith’s stance...
Tuesday, 03 February 2009
25.
#77
(Entries/Individuals and groups)
I don’t remember for sure how I met #77, but I’ll hazard a guess and say it was through the LGBT society. And I don’t remember kissing him either, but I imagine it happened when he h
Thursday, 29 January 2009
Interfaith Coalition Against Homosexuality protest. (Reuters)
If you want to foster AIDS and kill queers in Africa, Rick Warren's the man for you. While Warren's characterization of q
Tuesday, 13 January 2009
Source: CartoonStock
What does it mean to have a religion or follow a religion? Part of the answer would be that one’s behavior would conform to the teachings and proscriptions
Monday, 05 January 2009
...t for me without making me sacrifice too much. I was, though, extremely upset when I read what Baha'i says about homosexuality . To me, frankly and with all do respect, it contradicts the central teach...
Monday, 20 October 2008
The tenth anniversary of the establishment of a leading Muslim lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans support organisation will be celebrated with a conference in London next month.
Friday, 26 September 2008
Two weeks ago, today, I was married, for the fourth time. The first time I was married to my son’s mother more than 25 years ago and the last three to the man I have been living with for
Tuesday, 26 August 2008
...n a way on my wariness to draw or focus on lines between groups of people. I recently saw a great documentary on homosexuality in American Christianity. A cleric in this documentary said, criticising ...
Thursday, 05 June 2008
In a directive issued on May 14, the governor’s legal counsel, David Nocenti, instructed the agencies that gay couples married elsewhere “should be afforded the same recognition as any oth
Thursday, 29 May 2008
...s.
In one way, however, the Bahá'í Faith is... less beautiful. For me, the Bahá'í Faith's moral assesment of homosexuality is the main reason why I came to distrust the Faith as an infallible mora...
Tuesday, 04 March 2008
...ber your SRK handle at 4am) are bahais. Anyone else?
My reservation right now is about Bahai's approach to homosexuality , but I figure that it's no different from how christianity approaches gay...
Sunday, 02 March 2008
...e. If only men would search out truth, they would find themselves united.
What is the Baha'i attitude toward homosexuality ?
Baha'i law limits permissible sexual relations to those between a man ...
Saturday, 10 November 2007
Putting Things in Perspective
While many of us continue to vent and fume at the House of Bishops, comes this news from Uganda which helps me put things in perspective. Peter Tatchell provides t
Sunday, 07 October 2007
My second set at the Hollywood Improv
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Full story...
Monday, 01 October 2007
Jack Nichols with Touran & Khan, 1954
This Earth One Country--Humankind Its Citizens
Looking across a lifetime spent with mentors, I know now that Ali-Kuli Khan Nabil was the fi
Monday, 01 October 2007
Ali Kuli Khan, his niece, Touran Araghi and Jack Nichols in Washington, D.C., 1953
To the National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of the United States
A Little Known History of a
Sunday, 30 September 2007
.... I always remember being disappointed when my close Baha’i friend told me that the Baha’i stance on homosexuality — even though the faith is comparatively liberal and egalitarian in...
Thursday, 27 September 2007
Crises Across Africa, when a daily newspaper unveiled the latest installment of what it bills as its "Weird Sex Investigation," publishing the names and detailed descriptions of 40 men
Friday, 14 September 2007
...y sex, which is punishable with life in prison.
Government spokesman Kirunda Kivejinja responded that “homosexuality is repugnant.”
Five days later, hundreds of Christian, Muslim a...
Thursday, 30 August 2007
...differences.
Several news sources are reporting that an Interfaith group, including the Baha'is, staged an anti-homosexuality march in Uganda yesterday in response to an increase in pro gay rights ac...
Thursday, 23 August 2007
...he rights of gays, lesbians and bisexuals says they are deprived of their rights by the country's law that makes homosexuality illegal. The comments follow an anti-gay protest in the Ugandan cap...
Thursday, 23 August 2007
Calls for media censorship, deportation of journalist, arrests, dismissal of academic
A few weeks ago I blogged on the case of Julius Lukyamuzi, a Ugandan who alleges that he suffer
Wednesday, 22 August 2007
...nding the deportation of an American journalist writing about gay rights in the deeply conservative country.
Homosexuality is illegal in Uganda, like in most African states, and carries a maximum ...
Wednesday, 22 August 2007
...push by homosexual activists for gay rights in Uganda. Christian groups based their protests on the grounds that homosexuality is immoral, illegal and unhealthy.
The Christian organization Inter...
Wednesday, 22 August 2007
CHRISTIANS opposed to homosexuality will hold a rally
today, just days after gays addressed a news conference
for the first time demanding respect for their rights.
Under the u
Tuesday, 21 August 2007
Parada Gay da Bahia aconteceu em 03 de Setembro de 2006, mas só agora estamos disponibilizando o vídeo do evento. Esta marcha cidadã aconteceu em Salvador Bahia e contou com a presença de 300 mil pess
Monday, 16 July 2007
They need have no doubt or anxiety regarding the nature, the origin or validity of the institutions which the adherents of the Faith are building up throughout the world. For these lie embedded in the
Thursday, 28 June 2007
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