Speak Up Against Bahai Discrimination

[NUR]

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/stop-bahai-anti-gay

The Baha'i Faith, a world religion that espouses many beautiful,
forward thinking ideas, also unfortunately overtly condemns
homosexuality and teaches that it is a spiritual "handicap." Gay
Baha'is face the loss of their Baha'i administrative rights if they
are open and honest about their sexual orientation and lifestyle.

Recently, the Baha'i community of Uganda participated in an interfaith
effort to deport an American journalist for covering a LGBTI human
rights event called, "Let Us Live in Peace." The Baha'is of Uganda
also advocated the arrest of all LGBTI individuals in Uganda for their
"immorality." Please see the following links for more information:

http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/peter_tatchell/2007/09/ugandan_gays_demand_freedom.html

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6952157.stm

http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2007/aug/07082103.html

Baha'is who disagree with this blatant discrimination face
administrative and spiritual "sanctions" from their religious
authorities.

It is time to speak up.

If you find the Baha'i position on homosexuality offensive and
discriminatory, please sign this petition.

If you are a Baha'i, and you sign, please be aware that you risk
administrative sanctions from the Baha'i institutions.* But ask
yourself why you should have administrative rights, when they are
denied your gay brothers and sisters. Perhaps it is time to
demonstrate your commitment to justice, fairness, and the oneness of
humanity by risking your own administrative rights in a stand for
justice. Do not let the type of actions that happened in Uganda be
done in your name. Take a stand.

For more information about the Baha'i Faith's stance on homosexuality,
please visit:

http://www.religioustolerance.org/hom_bah.htm

If you are a Baha'i and receive warnings, counseling, or sanctions due
to your voicing your disaggreement with Baha'i discrimination through
this petition, please consider informing us so that we might inform
the media, anonymously if you prefer. Consider the words of Martin
Luther King, Jr:

"I submit that an individual who breaks an unjust law must do so
openly, lovingly, and with a willingness to accept the penalty. I
submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him
is unjust, and who accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to
arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in
reality expressing the highest respect for the law." (Why We Can't
Wait, Page 83)

[NUR]

You two really ought to be ashamed of yourselves. That you are this
deluded about a wrong your creed is involved with, and pull rank no
matter what, really demonstrates to the world at large how incredibly
dangerous your organization truly is.

Now allow me to refresh your memory on this case:

http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/peter_tatchell/2007/09/ugandan_ga...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6952157.stm
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2007/aug/07082103.html

Surely the Guardian UK and the BBC aren't part of some global Azali
conspiracy against you, are they?

As for your wackopedia links: you knows what you can do with them,
since wackopedia has even less credibility these days than you.

Now if you are brighter than I in more ways than one, please show it.
Words are cheap. Begin by unequivocally and without waver denouncing
the involvement of the Ugandan Bahai community and administration, and
the public silence of the Bahai World Centre, in this criminal
hysteria. Do that, and you are worthy of your handle in my eyes. Fail,
and you know the rest...

[NUR]

Who is resorting to threats other than you? But the more appropriate
question is why are you continually resorting to outright lying and
claiming to be an atheist when we both know you are a card carrying
member of the Haifan Bahai organization?

Yes, my comments under NUR are there for all to see, and I put them
there specifically for all to see. What is your point, again? But I am
not Covenant, Ravian Bilani and all those other aliases you claim, nor
even if I was is there anything specifically wrong with anything those
individuals have done or said. Nor if you were an atheist you would
care what I or those other aliases have done or said. But a Bahai
would. However I have demanded concrete evidence from you to prove
your allegation that I am those other identities, and except for
canard, innuendo and big-lie repetition you have so far provided jack
diddly squat.

Finally, as for your claim to being a non-Bahai, and atheist I draw
people's attention to the following:

Susan Stiles Maneck,
http://bahai-library.com/bsr/bsr06/62_maneck_hikmat.htm
WISDOM AND DISSIMULATION IN THE BAHA’I WRITINGS: The Use and meaning
of Hikmat in the Baha’i Writings

QUOTE

"In many cases hikmat calls for the apparent suspension of a Bahá'í
principle in order to ensure the protection of the Faith."

Comment: In other words Baha'is may lie under any circumstance to
ensure the protection of their organizational cohesiveness.