From: uarvay1@gmail.com   
      
   From Aug 2017 re-posting now   
      
   Men and women are equal, but not interchangeable. The Baha’i adage that men   
   and women are like the wings of a bird is well intentioned, but it misses an   
   important point. We are not mirror images of each other. Our equality is   
   asymmetrical.   
      
   This is why, I suppose, women are not permitted to serve as members of the UHJ.   
      
   I find it curious that there are Baha’is who disagree with that doctrine,   
   and yet declare themselves to be followers of the faith. Indeed, they disagree   
   with much more than that, and yet hold themselves forward as Baha’is. One   
   wonders.   
      
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   From 9/2015   
      
   Republican presidential candidate Dr Ben Carson recently became the target of   
   critics when he declared that he could not support a Muslim candidacy for   
   president. What he really said was that he could indeed support anyone of any   
   faith, so long as the    
   way they would preside would be consistent with the US Constitution.   
      
   The question then becomes, is Islam compatible with the US Constitution?   
      
   Carson asked for any authoritative Islamic teaching which renounced the   
   penalties for apostasy or homosexuality, and which proposed equal rights for   
   women. He pointed out that all the Islamic teachings he could find were   
   inconsistent with basic freedoms    
   guaranteed under the US Constitution, and said that if he were to be given an   
   authoritative document otherwise, he would reconsider.   
      
   I pose two questions:   
      
   1. Can anyone here produce such a document?   
      
   2. If Islam and the US Constitution are compatible, then could a Christian be   
   elected head of a predominantly Muslim nation?   
      
   Thank you in advance.   
      
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