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		<title>LGBTQ News</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 07:33:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Links to what is in the news Sean manages this page and adds what he finds in the news. These links will stay here and when I have time I’ll make cross links from the “About” page and other pages on this blog so this can be more useful as a resource and forum for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=justabahai.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9337908&amp;post=1220&amp;subd=justabahai&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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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>
		<dc:creator>justabahai</dc:creator>
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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>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 May 2011 15:13:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>justabahai</dc:creator>
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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>
		<dc:creator>justabahai</dc:creator>
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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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		<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>
		<dc:creator>justabahai</dc:creator>
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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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			<media:title type="html">&#34;We will all, verily, abide by the will of God.&#34; </media:title>
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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>
		<dc:creator>justabahai</dc:creator>
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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>
		<dc:creator>justabahai</dc:creator>
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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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