The Baha'i Studies Listserv it's my understanding that in a Bahai marriage, the consent of the parents is a very important requirement. My question is, for the purposes of marriage, is it the birth/natural parents who give consent or it be adoptive parents / legal guardian or something else?
On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 2:59 PM, Stephen Kent Gray <skg_z...@yahoo.com>wrote: > The Baha'i Studies Listserv > > How would you verify or falsify such an unscientific claim? It also seems > you are making the theoretical perfect the enemy of the practical good? > > Even if as you claim, heterosexual monogamy has greater potential than > homosexual monogamy. This claim is scientifically dubious though. It > doesn't follow not to allow same sex marriage or same sex adoption. > > You seem to imply heterosexual monogamy has a monopoly on stability. > > You can't predict whether any given family will be stable or unstable > based on such variables. > > Sent from my iPad > > On Apr 9, 2013, at 16:20, Don Calkins <don59...@gmail.com> wrote: > > The Baha'i Studies Listserv > > Aha, my mistake. > > I don't think there are any that are really good. That's because this is > a very complex topic w/ an unknown number of important factors, and because > we are currently living in a fundamentally dysfunctional society. > > At the present time, I doubt that monogamous heterosexual relationships > regularly produce a significantly superior family atmosphere over any > other. i believe they have the potential to do so, but that this potential > is largely squandered or overwhelmed by outside influences. > > Don C > > > On Apr 9, 2013, at 2:05 14PM, Stephen Kent Gray wrote: > > I was talking about heterosexual monogamy being best, what studies of > homosexual monogamy and parenting are you familiar with? > > > > ----------- > It doesn't matter whether the sun shines if you never go outside. > > > > > __________________________________________________ You are subscribed to Baha'i Studies as: mailto:arch...@mail-archive.com Unsubscribe: send a blank email to mailto:leave-696227-27401.54f46e81b66496c9909bcdc2f7987...@list.jccc.edu Subscribe: send subscribe bahai-st in the message body to ly...@list.jccc.edu Or subscribe: http://list.jccc.edu:8080/read/all_forums/subscribe?name=bahai-st Baha'i Studies is available through the following: Mail - mailto:bahai-st@list.jccc.edu Web - http://list.jccc.edu:8080/read/?forum=bahai-st News (on-campus only) - news://list.jccc.edu/bahai-st Old Public - http://www.mail-archive.com/bahai-st@list.jccc.net New Public - http://www.mail-archive.com/bahai-st@list.jccc.edu
