The Baha'i Studies Listserv > I agree that we are probably not obliged to keep it a secret, because I've > not yet seen in the Writings that there is such a specified obligation. > Exercising wisdom by choosing not to reveal it is a different matter. I have > seen people "typecast" because they revealed their vote, and I usually don't > find that helpful in teaching the Faith (particularly in the current, > highly-partisan atmosphere in the U.S.). IMO only. >
Sure, if we are teaching the Faith we should not bring it up, but as you know I teach at a HBCU (historically black college) and when my colleagues told me that when white people went into the poll booth they would not vote for a black man, I couldn't resist coming back to work the next day and say, "Yes, we did." :-) __________________________________________________ You are subscribed to Baha'i Studies as: mailto:[email protected] Unsubscribe: send a blank email to mailto:[email protected] Subscribe: send subscribe bahai-st in the message body to [email protected] Or subscribe: http://list.jccc.edu:8080/read/all_forums/subscribe?name=bahai-st Baha'i Studies is available through the following: Mail - mailto:[email protected] 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/[email protected] New Public - http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]
