The Baha'i Studies Listserv > > > Most of the Islamic world has strict rules enforced with sometimes violent > punishments to enforce Islamic moral > codes<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharia>, > 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-697605-27401.54f46e81b66496c9909bcdc2f7987...@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
