The Baha'i Studies Listserv On Jan 29, 2012, at 11:32 33PM, David Regal wrote:
> How much clear advice does the House give NSA's about when voting rights > should be removed? Maybe it's changed since I left, but the NZ NSA seemed > pretty 'soft' on this, generally giving endless warnings. Australia seems to > be much different. Someone had their voting rights taken away despite doing > much less than some people in NZ who never lost their voting rights. Hence I > wonder if the House leaves a lot of latitude to NSA's. Yes. And they very rarely over-rule an NSA unless there has been a violation of the spirit of Baha'i principles. In this way, their attitude is more like an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, which is limited to considering Constitutional issues, not issues of fact. In those cases where the World Center has intervened, it has actually been a member of the International Teaching Center (originally Hands of the Cause) that met w/ the NSA to discuss the matter, not a msg from the House of Justice. I personally only know of a couple cases where this has been done, one of which did involve loss of administrative rights. According to what I was told, and this was a long time ago, middle 60's, it involved a personal vendetta against a popular pioneer couple. Don C ------------- Understood properly, all man's problems are essentially spiritual in nature. __________________________________________________ You are subscribed to Baha'i Studies as: mailto:[email protected] Unsubscribe: send a blank email to mailto:leave-630831-27401.54f46e81b66496c9909bcdc2f7987...@list.jccc.edu 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]
