Re: Teaching the Baha'i laws about Homosexuality

Refugee Dev, 

Do you think there are Baha'i laws against homosexuality?  I've only
seen where sodomy is forbidden--its meaning problematic.  

I also have seen where Baha'u'llah declares shame over sleeping with
boys but doesn't seem to declare it to be forbidden.  Scholars have said
that the custom generally was frowned up since married men of the
Iranian aristocracy did it with their slaves.  Ron Segal in  _Islam's
Black Slaves_ stated that the custom of men dominating and buggering
their slaves was generally not thought about, since one's slaves were
one's private property to do with what one wished.  I've not been able
to determine if female owners of slaves were accorded the same
privilege, but if the word "liwat" means married men buggering slave
boys (as some scholars declare) then obviously women weren't considered
in that regard.

To the non-Baha'i outsider studying this law, it is confusing since what
the Manifestation doesn't seem to say is factored in by the Guardian as
interpreter of what He doesn't say but means. The alien has to accept
the concept of interpretation in order even begin to understand this
law.  Is there anything comparable in other religions?

You'd think Allah would have stated such a big law in clear and
unambiguous language like when Jehovah did when He declared: "Thou shalt
not kill."  Right?  At some point maybe Allah and Jehovah will get their
culture-oriented acts together and the Universal Show on the road?
--Cal