The Baha'i Studies Listserv How would consultation work now for setting public policy?
Sent from my iPad On Apr 17, 2013, at 12:28, Susan Maneck <sman...@gmail.com> wrote: > The Baha'i Studies Listserv > >Would non-Bahais be bound by Baha'i laws or not? > > Dear Stephen, > > I don't think we can say for sure but if we use Islam as the precedence, > non-Muslims in a Muslim state were generally expected to abide by the laws of > their own religion. For instance, while Muslims were not allowed to drink > alcohol, Christians and Jews could both produce and imbibe it. >> >> Why should non-Bahais care about Baha'i laws? > > I guess you'll have to ask the non-Baha'is that question. ;-} In my view they > shouldn't unless they are considering becoming Baha'is or we start acting > like we are going to impose our laws on them against their will. >> >> How should public policy be decided in current societies whether Jewish, >> Christian, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, etc? > > Baha'is are rather fond of consultation when it comes to setting policy. > > warmest, Susan __________________________________________________ You are subscribed to Baha'i Studies as: mailto:arch...@mail-archive.com Unsubscribe: send a blank email to mailto:leave-697880-27401.54f46e81b66496c9909bcdc2f7987...@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
