Lol, so because you believe that other Baha'i groups consider homosexuality to be moral (whether rightly or wrongly I don't know) you have decided that they don't exist even after you admitted in the other thread that they do. So not only are you deciding which group is true depending on which group confirms your bigotry against homosexuals, you are also prepared to contradict yourself by saying there is only one Baha'i Faith at the same time as reffering to "those other Baha'i groups" which looks to me like a lie in the first sentence mixed with truth in the second sentence.
The other Baha'i groups exist, but they are not under the Covenant of Baha'u'llah. My deciding factor is which group is under the Covenant of Baha'u'llah. Anyone can form a group and call themself a Baha'i group, but there is only one Baha'i Faith under the Covenant.
Thats only true for the present moment in time. The Haifa Universal House of Justice has said it will engage in politics when there is a Baha'i majority and establish a Baha'i state in my view;
That is all we have, the present time. Nobody knows what will happen in the future, it is all conjecture.
'The Bahá’ís will be called upon to assume the reins of government when they will come to constitute the majority of the population in a given country, and even then their participation in political affairs is bound to be limited in scope unless they obtain a similar majority in some other countries as well. (19 November 1939) Source:
https://www.bahai.org/library/autho...ages/19950427_001/19950427_001.xhtml?59532be8
If the Bahá’ís are
called upon to assume the reins of government when they will come to constitute the majority of the population, that is not imposing their religion on others.
It is irrelevant because your idol did not ban anal sex in my view.
It is not irrelevant that anal sex carries many health risks.
Baha'u'llah did ban anal sex.
Find me where your idol Baha'u'llah says this as opposed to your bias putting words in your idol's mouth please.
Enter into wedlock, O people,
that ye may bring forth one who will make mention of Me amid My servants. This is My bidding unto you; hold fast to it as an assistance to yourselves.
The Kitáb-i-Aqdas, p. 41
Last I checked, only a man and a woman can bring forth offspring.
People were not created in my view, but I can see that since you have assumed they are it would be difficult to convince you that your assumption is utterly unfounded.
You know full well what I mean. No, people were not created in a creationist sense, people evolved, but God had a hand in how humans evolved.
People ere not created for pleasure, not according to Baha'u'llah:
"Would that ye had the power to perceive the things your Lord, the All-Merciful, doth see—things that attest the excellence of your rank, that bear witness to the greatness of your worth, that proclaim the sublimity of your station! God grant that your
desires and unmortified passions may not
hinder you from that which hath been ordained for you." Gleanings, p. 317
"Suffer not the habitation wherein dwelleth My undying love for thee to be destroyed through the
tyranny of covetous desires, and overcloud not the beauty of the heavenly Youth with the
dust of self and passion. Clothe thyself with the essence of righteousness, and let thine heart be afraid of none except God."
Gleanings, p. 323
Knowledge is justified true belief. Please justify that homosexuality (as opposed to promiscuos anal sex) is of net harm.
I don't have to justify that for you. It is against the laws of God and that is all that matters.
You are free to have your own opinion but you are not going to change my opinion. I go with God.
That is because the Bible was written by people who were ignorant of what moderns now know in my view.
What the moderns know has no bearing on what God revealed as immoral, throughout the ages.
Great, so let gays get married.
They can get married if it is legal where they live. Nobody is stopping them.
Are new age Baha'is another Baha'i group?
That refers to any Baha'i group that is not under the Covenant of Baha'u'llah.
You sound like you follow the Bible when it suits your bigotry and reject it when it doesn't in my view.
I follow it when it concurs with what Baha'u'llah revealed.