The Baha'i Studies Listserv Susan, the point is that Islamists all over the world want to turn the world into one big Islamist Islamic Superstate of a Caliphate. Have you studied Islamism?
Sent from my iPad On Apr 17, 2013, at 15:24, Susan Maneck <sman...@gmail.com> wrote: > The Baha'i Studies Listserv >> >> Most of the Islamic world has strict rules enforced with sometimes violent >> punishments to enforce Islamic moral codes, including sexual morality on >> their citizens, and impose it on non-Muslims living within their societies. > > That is a more recent phenomenon. It was the case that Islamic laws were > imposed on non-Muslims during the classical period or even the period of the > Gunpowder Empires. > >> Susan, while conservatives tend to make claims like that all the time, no >> actual evidence has shown that to be true. Instead, two parent households >> regardless of gender is the ideal home according to the data. Interpreting >> the data any other way is a non sequitur. > > According to the data of how many studies? And please give more than wiki > article. I think most of us who were raised by both a father and mother > experienced the importance of having both, not just because we needed two of > whatever, but because it was important to have both a male and female model. > Now obviously that often doesn't happen to do and homosexuality plays a very > small role. My son, like many children, was raised in a single-parent > household. It may well be that a gay couple is preferable to that. We don't > deny single parents their parental rights, why would we deny it to gay > people? But all things being equal, I have to agree with Don that having a > mother and father is optimal. But life doesn't give most of us what is > optimal so we work with what we have. __________________________________________________ You are subscribed to Baha'i Studies as: mailto:arch...@mail-archive.com Unsubscribe: send a blank email to mailto:leave-698424-27401.54f46e81b66496c9909bcdc2f7987...@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
