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		<title>Homosexual Fish</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 23:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Oestrogen had gotten into the water and changed the fish. It made them homosexual,” &#160;he said. A seemingly innocent comment made by a Bahai at a Bahai gathering, got me thinking. It was prejudice to my ears &#8211; yet I didn&#8217;t have the words at the time to respond so I was silent. What it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=justabahai.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9337908&amp;post=1125&amp;subd=justabahai&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Baha’u&#8217;llah &amp; “The Subject of Boys”</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jun 2011 13:44:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few months ago Baquia wrote a blog of the same name where s/he noted: &#8220;If we search Baha&#8217;u'llah&#8217;s writings, we find something quite remarkable. Nowhere in Baha&#8217;u'llah&#8217;s writings is there an explicit mention of homosexuality (and neither by Abdu’l-Baha). Arguably, the only reference we have is an extremely brief mention in the Aqdas (more [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=justabahai.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9337908&amp;post=1062&amp;subd=justabahai&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>It’s Getting Better: Baha’i Faith &amp; Homosexuality</title>
		<link>http://justabahai.wordpress.com/2011/05/31/getting-better/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 May 2011 15:13:09 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Homosexuality]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160;Demonstrator at the August 2007 anti-gay rally in Kampala, Uganda. &#160;Photo: Rebekah Heacock. I posted the following blog on Bahai rants (http://bahairants.com/bahai-faith-homosexuality-its-getting-better-1358.html) on January 14th 2011 in response to the Universal House of Justice letter made public in a letter penned by the US N.S.A. on January 3rd 2011. I&#8217;m reposting this here because I&#8217;ve [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=justabahai.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9337908&amp;post=954&amp;subd=justabahai&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lady Gaga and &#8220;Born This Way&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 May 2011 20:54:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Click to listen or watch &#8220;Born this way&#8221; by Lady Gaga Today someone told me that a psychologist was recently warned against trying to &#8220;treat&#8221; homosexuality because it wasn&#8217;t supposed to be considered as a subject for &#8220;treatment&#8221;, in other words, &#8220;leave us alone, we like it this way&#8221;, it&#8217;s our &#8220;right&#8221;. In response I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=justabahai.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9337908&amp;post=857&amp;subd=justabahai&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">as one soul..., limited edition lithograph by Sonja van Kerkhoff, 1991</media:title>
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		<title>We need to make it better now!</title>
		<link>http://justabahai.wordpress.com/2011/01/27/we/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Jan 2011 15:14:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Baha&#8217;u'llah: &#8220;The best beloved of all things in My sight is Justice; turn not away therefrom if thou desirest Me, and neglect it not that I may confide in thee. By its aid thou shalt see with thine own eyes&#8230;&#8220; Yesterday, David Kato, a spokesperson for Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG) was murdered in his [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=justabahai.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9337908&amp;post=793&amp;subd=justabahai&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;We will all, verily, abide by the will of God.&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://justabahai.wordpress.com/2010/12/31/we-verily/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Dec 2010 22:45:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the Bahai marriage vow. I always loved the sentiment here &#8212; that individuals give themselves to God, rather than the promise to obey each other. In 1984 my spouse to be and I recited this at the same time, as it seemed fitting as an expression of equality. Our partnership as two consenting [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=justabahai.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9337908&amp;post=741&amp;subd=justabahai&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Homosexuality and the Baha’i Community: a conversation</title>
		<link>http://justabahai.wordpress.com/2010/10/30/a-conversation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Oct 2010 22:55:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sonja: Recently I was told that writing for a Baha&#8217;i gay audience was an oxymoron, and when I pointed out that I found this comment offensive the response was that the problem was with me and the writer went so far as to state that I needed to take this up with the House of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=justabahai.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9337908&amp;post=557&amp;subd=justabahai&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Is there homophobia in the Baha&#8217;i community?</title>
		<link>http://justabahai.wordpress.com/2010/07/30/homophobia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 12:22:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is there homophobia in the Baha'i community? In April this year Korey started a discussion on a Bahai Facebook group called "homophobia" and here are a few of my responses to the discussion on this thread.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=justabahai.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9337908&amp;post=429&amp;subd=justabahai&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The principle of &#8216;mutatis mutandis&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://justabahai.wordpress.com/2010/06/10/mm/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jun 2010 12:48:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA['Mutatis mutandis' a mention of 'liwaat' in relation to Bahai Scripture and some reference to the usage of Letters written on behalf of Shoghi Effendi.
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		<title>Flexibility in Bahai Law in relation to homosexuality</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 May 2010 16:18:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following is a response to a thread on the Bahai Planet forum called &#8220;AIDS Faith conference&#8221; where the intitial poster was curious to know if there had been any Bahai statements on AIDS and the loss of life due to this. The discussion quickly turned to the rights and wrongs of homosexuality. I stepped [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=justabahai.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9337908&amp;post=251&amp;subd=justabahai&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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