During this Pride Month, which has been celebrated in so many diverse and controversial ways, I would like to take this opportunity to express my gratitude to, and awe for the countless same-sex attracted (SSA) Bahá’ís who have selflessly served the Cause of Bahá’u’lláh down through the decades. I personally have witnessed SSA Bahá’ís serving on National and Local Spiritual Assemblies, as members of the Institution of the Learned, as pioneers, as well as among the dedicated rank and file of the world-wide Bahá’í community. In an age of materialism, racism and identity politics, their example of identifying as world citizen Bahá’ís rather than by their biological, material or sexual identities, serves as sterling example that we are all souls who happen to have bodies (not the reverse), made in the image and likeness of the attributes of God (justice, kindness, truthfulness, faithfulness, purity, etc.) We are all different sized and shaped mirrors, with the same function (vocation); that is, to identify as reflectors of those attributes, the way a mirror reflects the sun; not to herd in clusters of like mirrors, taking pride in our physical similarities. The mistaken self-image of identity politics not only emphasizes separation over our true human unity via our common vocation, but also allows the world to go dark as we take pride in our personal or tribal mirror while we forget to and/or fail to reflect the Sun. Thank you, for your example of obediently reflecting the Sun and making the world brighter, my beloved SSA Bahá’í brothers and sisters. “Noble have I created thee, yet dost thou hast abased thyself. Rise then unto that for which thou wast created.” - Bahá’u’lláh

why are you no longer Baha'i?

@@RocketGator05 I wrote an article titled "48 Reasons Why I Left The Baha'i Faith," but have not uploaded it yet. If I were to draw out one major reason, it would be the fact that the Baha'i "administration" suppressed and covered up the Baha'i "Book Of Laws" (Kitab-i-Aqdas) for the entire time I was a member (and for about 150 years after it was written!), saying "It's not been translated yet." (It had been translated several times.) If I were to have read that book -- the straight unadulterated text -- in the beginning, I never would have joined. The "Baha'i Faith" that the "admin" foisted on the world is very different thing than what you see reading the Kitab-i-Aqdas. Really just a primitivistic, Islamic, and strange sect was all it was. The "universalist" ideas were cherry-picked and magnified by the "admin" to attract progressive westerners.

@@DivineFellowship :( bummer

Interesting perspective. Why do you think women are given preference for higher education in the Bahá'í Faith when there are not sufficient funds to educate all the children? Is this not also inequality and unjust?

One Race > Boring. God is never boring.

Sadly, another person that buys into the common misinformation that uses their own facts, instead of the scientific truth about medicine!! I hope people realize that ignorance can kill you!!

@@PerfectTommy81, careful. One day you will choke on your words. Have you even investigated what you claim is misinformation? Or do you just blindly accept what you’ve been spoon fed? You’ve been hoodwinked if you actually believe what you wrote. That’s what is really sad.

@@horizonized If you say so!!

@@PerfectTommy81 I hope you wake up

@@RocketGator05 So do I!!

I agree. We are not all the same. My heart wanted to say We are all one. Unique and beautiful in our own way.

Blessings on you, precious soul.

So sweet

When you believe in the Baha'i Faith you believe in all religions. Your vision is now wider and encompasses all faiths and people. Oneness of God and Oneness of religions.

Jesus no creo que estas correcto . Lee un poco o conoce Bahais son maravillosos . Muchos somos profesionales de distintas profesiones y somos Bahais.

Por que piensas eso? Esta religión tiene las contestaciones y enseñanza que se necesitan para estos tiempos.

Why?

If you please, there is only One Creator, all religions worship the same Creator!! God is One, Man is One, and the worship of our Creator is One!!

❤💝 Sending Loving Bahai greetings from Mongolia!

The Bahi religion is part of the manmade ONE WORLD RELIGION CO-EXIST.

There is ONLY ONE WAY TO GET ETERNAL LIFE AND THAT IS THRU JESUS CHRIST HIMSELF.

Perhaps you should carefully consider that if Jesus "HIMSELF IS GOD", as you claim, why would Jesus say, “The Father is GREATER than I".? John 14:28 and why did he say "Why callest thou me good? No one is good but God alone" Matthew 19:17 and why did he say "Very truly I tell you, the Son can do nothing by himself; he can do only what he sees his Father doing, because whatever the Father does the Son also does.” John 5:19. Why did he say "I seek not my own will but the will of my Father who sent me". John 5:30 if Jesus "Himself is God" why would he say: "For I have come down from heaven not to do my will but to do the will of him who sent me."? John 6:38 Do these statements not defeat the law of non contradiction? If Jesus "Himself is God" he would not repeatedly and emphatically refer to God as greater than he was and that he had been sent to do God's will. God is clearly distinct from Jesus so this is an intrinsic contradiction. Please also consider another important question. Was Moses God? "Then the LORD said to Moses, “See, I have made you like God to Pharaoh, and your brother Aaron will be your prophet." Exodus 7:1 Could it be argued that Moses "Himself is God" based on this verse?

Sadly, you probably won't believe this, but there is no Satan, there is only God!! Evil is the absent of good, darkness has no existence; you don't turn on the darkness, you turn off the light!! Satan, or evil, is the 'insistence self', not a power that exist!! You actually choose to be a 'Hitler' or a 'St. Francis'!!

@@heathersmith9667 If you ever studied the Baha'i Faith, you will find you might be mistaken!!

The belief that men in Black helicopters are coming after your color TV, is not really science!!