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From: Susan Maneck
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I think the House of Justice goes out of its way to insure
female participation in virtually every other administrative
capacity. But exclusion from the highest body is exclusion
from the highest body, and that cannot be without symbolic
significance if nothing else.
Dear Susan,
I suppose it would be poetic justice if males were to be exempted/excluded
from service on the Baha'i world's future Executive Body. And there is
support in the reported sayings of 'Abdu'l-Baha for the superiority of women
in governing. Just a thought.
--- Vaughn
"The woman is indeed of the greater importance to the race. She has the
greater burden and the greater work. Look at the vegetable and the animal
worlds. The palm which carries the fruit is the tree most prized by the date
grower. The Arab knows that for a long journey the mare has the longest
wind. For her greater strength and fierceness, the lioness is more feared by
the hunter than the lion...
"The woman has greater moral courage than the man; she has also special
gifts which enable her to govern in moments of danger and crisis."
('Abdu'l-Bah� in London, 1982 U.K. edition, pp. 102-103)
(Compilations, Lights of Guidance, p. 620)
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