While I'm glad you do, the thing is though, that clarity and reality kind of makes us LGBTQ+ see the Baha'i faith as bigoted, prejudiced, and not living up to their outward claims. Even if we do respect Bahaullah and his writings.
Hi Kat.
I do not accept that the Baha’i Faith teaches bigotry or prejudice. This passage from Abdul-Baha goes right into the matter and this is what we are being taught. You decide whether it constitutes bigotry and prejudice or whether something else is intended. You be the judge.
“O ye lovers of this wronged one! Cleanse ye your eyes, so that ye behold no man as different from yourselves. See ye no strangers; rather see all men as friends, for love and unity come hard when ye fix your gaze on otherness.
And in this new and wondrous age, the Holy Writings say that we must be at one with every people; that we must see neither harshness nor injustice, neither malevolence, nor hostility, nor hate, but rather turn our eyes toward the heaven of ancient glory. For each of the creatures is a sign of God, and it was by the grace of the Lord and His power that each did step into the world; therefore they are not strangers, but in the family; not aliens, but friends, and to be treated as such.
Wherefore must the loved ones of God associate in affectionate fellowship with stranger and friend alike, showing forth to all the utmost loving-kindness, disregarding the degree of their capacity, never asking whether they deserve to be loved”
Selections from the Writings of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá
‘Abdu’l-Bahá
Are not LGBT+ humans and so included here? I say a resounding yes most definitely. So you are not an ‘us and them’ according to these teachings.