About
Just a Bahai Blog
~personal views on issues related to the Bahai Faith~
I am Sonja van Kerkhoff, an artist and a Bahai living in the Netherlands.
I’ve started this blog in response to being blocked from a Dutch Bahai
e-list (30th August 2009). My first blog explains what this is about
and now I use this blog for any Bahai related stuff I write which is often in response to a comment on another blog.
For what I do go to art or design.
I also have a blog for media, travel, and music related stuff and a blog that is more focussed on media, music and contemporary art here
You can search for particular blogs, themes or words under FIND and make any suggestions for things you are looking for, below. Rather than post these, I’ll try to solve the problem.
Dear Sonja,
Thanx for your interesting blog. I found your site both professionaly as private. I am working on behalf of an organisation which tries to stimulate the discussion in public about social acceptance of homosexuality within religious groups.
Privately I am interested in the Bahai religion and homosexual which is indeed a dilemma.
As I am not a Bahai I did not experience any negative approach from Bahai community, but I am shocked when I read your blog.
Thanks for bringing this into the public.
Kind regards
Thanks / Bedankt Remco
You might find this link of interest > http://gaybahai.net
There are many stories from gay Bahais which would give you an idea of how they have been treated.
My biggest problem is with the double standards. Bahais will say there is no discrimination and will even say to me that they have gay friends, etc, who they treat with equality, but… then, without flinching say, something like it is a Bahai Law that gays may not marry or worse, associate healthy individuals with disease or abuse.
Here’s a link to a response I gave someone who asked “Can I become a Bahai if I am openly Gay?”
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100519145457AAftaZp
As a Bahai myself, I think that there is most certainly room for gays to be treated with equality within the Bahai community: hence one of the reasons for this blog
If you have material online (in Nederlands is prima) about your organization, please post a link.