"It
may be time to include in workshops for Baha'is and other anti-gay
religions to let them know that exclusion works both ways. Their dynamic
is that if one is gay, Baha'is cannot give you full Baha'is rights.
They are trying to sort that out within the
religion. My message is increasingly, there is pretty much NOTHING the
Baha'i Faith can do right now to ever win someone like me back. And lots
of people like me. Its not that the Faith doesn't want us; rather we
do not want the Faith. It is too late and too much damage has been done
for the Faith to decide how tolerant it wishes to be within its
administrative parameters it has set for itself. So while it is very
nice that some people will come to a meeting about how to better
tolerate and treat gay people, they should be clearly told many of us
gay people have no wish to be tolerated by them. It is not our problem;
it is their problem. It is not that they have excluded us, but in fact
we have excluded them. ... They (the Baha'i Admin Order) have a really bad discriminatory rule that has harmed
lots of people and which the world increasingly is rejecting and makes
them irrelevant and unwanted. People are not knocking down doors to get
in to this religion. They have a serious problem. And it is not gay
people. But they might use the gay issue and the poor way they have
managed it to gain some insight into their irrelevance. They have
excluded the very people they need. Now many of those excluded people do
not want in. So perhaps include a segment ... that in
reality not many gay people want into this exclusive club no matter how
well they try to tolerate us."
- Anon Amigo
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