Sen McGlinn
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religious people !? Really ???
a bahai can **** his sisternice religion
The children of incestuous relationships have a high risk of congenital defects (see the wiki article ht tp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incest#Inbreeding). Bahais have been around in Iran and the surrounding countries for 10 generations or so. If there was in fact any inbreeding going on, it would be obvious.
This story about Bahai incest is just a lie spread by the Iranian government/mullahs. There's no truth in it at all. Have you ever heard even one case of a Bahai brother and sister marrying? It's a crock of *****
As in Islam, Christianity and Judaism, the Bahai scriptures contain general principles which are worked out in detail in the jurisprudence. Three principles are relevant in the Bahai teachings:
1) "distance is nearer than nearness. ." (It is better to marry an unrelated person, the further the better)
2) a relationship by marriage is to be treated as equivalent to a relationship by blood. (This is deduced from the Kitab-e Aqdas verse, "It is forbidden you to wed your fathers' wives."
3) "unions between relatives that are not explicitly treated, are referred to the House of Justice, which will give a ruling based on the culture, medical requirements, wisdom, and the capacity of human nature." (from a ruling by Abdu'l-Baha, expanding on a verse in the Aqdas (Q&A nr. 50). The House of Justice here is the elected national body that heads each national Bahai community. Cultures vary, so it may be necessary for different countries to have different rulings, just as some Muslim countries welcome first-cousin marriages and others forbid them).
Principles 1 and 3 are covered in one letter from Abdu'l-Baha, which I have translated on my blog at
ht tp://senmcglinn.wordpress.com/2010/11/22/religious-law-and-house-of-justice
But the fourth principle is actually decisive in every country today: Bahais are required to obey the laws of the land, and a Bahai marriage cannot take place against the laws of the country. Since in each country there are laws that specify the forbidden degrees of marriage, the national Houses of Justice ( = National Spiritual Assemblies of the Bahais of XX ) do not need to make a ruling. It would only be an issue, if there was a country where the marriage of close relatives was legal, in which case the Bahais of that country might need a more restrictive religious ruling. Except perhaps for first-cousin marriage in some North African countries (where there are very few Bahais and no national Spiritual Assemblies because the Bahais are not free), the question does not require any discussion in the Bahai community.
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