Susan said: "When you raised this issue on TRB you listed among the actions which you thought acceptable, taking a complaint regarding the exclusion of women from the Universal House of Justice to the United Nations. Perhaps Brent or some others might commnent as to whether such action would be contrary to the Teachings."
They are welcome to do so, but that would have nothing to do with my purpose in this thread. I'm not looking for writings that limit the *manner* in which we can promote our ideas. I'm looking for writings that limit the *kinds* of ideas we can promote. Then again, maybe you're posing the question of whether it is contrary to the Covenant to advocate bringing the question of women on the Universal House of Justice to the United Nations. In that case I need to correct your statement. I abandoned the idea of bringing the question to the United Nations. What I've suggested as a possibility, for Baha'is who think it's wrong to exclude women from the Universal House of Justice, is to bring the question to an international institution for resolution of religious conflicts, if one is ever established that the Baha'i Community supports in the same way we support the UN. As far as I know, such a body has not been established. Possibly there never will be such a body. I'm saying that *if* that ever happened, it would not be contrary to the Covenant for a Baha'i to bring the question of women on the Universal House of Justice to that body, if she first informed the Universal House of Justice of her intentions, and was not instructed by it not to do so. I don't think the Universal House of Justice would prevent anyone from doing that, or take any action against anyone for doing so. Jim __________________________________________________ You are subscribed to Baha'i Studies as: mailto:archive@mail-archive.com Unsubscribe: send a blank email to mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe: send subscribe bahai-st in the message body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 - news://list.jccc.edu/bahai-st Public - http://www.escribe.com/religion/bahaist Old Public - http://www.mail-archive.com/bahai-st@list.jccc.net New Public - http://www.mail-archive.com/bahai-st@list.jccc.edu
