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Well written article, makes me glad I moved here
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all of the videos mentioned are sweet!

I want to know where to see/watch the full length "Macklemore - The Town" video, only 30 second sneak peak available online!

Blue Scholars "Joe Metro" Music Video HQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLft61SMH…

Gabriel Teodros - "No Label"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEwQf4llC…

Zia's youtube channel
http://www.youtube.com/user/zia999#p/u/9…

Thanks for awarding Zia, he deserves it!!!
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Strange to mention the Seattle Lesbian and Gay Film Festival among the Film 2009 Stranger Genius Awards Shortlist while singling out Mohajerjasbi who as "a practicing Baha'i" believes, "No matter how devoted and fine the love may be between people of the same sex, to let it find expression in sexual acts is wrong. To say that it is ideal is no excuse. Immorality of every sort is really forbidden by Baha'u'llah, and homosexual relationships he looks upon as such, besides being against nature...To be afflicted this way is a great burden to a conscientious soul. But through the advice and help doctors, through a strong and determined effort, and through prayer, a soul can overcome this handicap."

http://www.religioustolerance.org/hom_ba…
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DavidS, I would suggest that your post is misleading in that it implies that Baha'is are aligned with many of the right wing political groups who seek to dictate the moral values of other people. For a Baha'i, the emphasis is on living up to the Baha'i moral code that one chooses as a Baha'i. It is definitely not about forcing a non Baha'i to live up to that moral code (or as Christ taught--let he who is without sin cast the first stone). If you knew much about the Baha'i Faith you would also know that it has a prohibition on involvement in partisan politics (Baha'is vote, but not as a Republican, Democrat, or whatever). Also, Baha'is are no stranger to oppression. They have been subject to it in Persia (now Iran) since the Faith began in Persia in the mid 1800s. Tens of thousands of Baha'is (at first known as Bab'is) have been killed by 'Islamic' religious leaders in Iran since the origin of the Faith. The progressive religious and social beliefs of the Baha'is, such as the equality of women and men, are not popular with the Islamic clergy. One early Bab'i leader, a women called Tahirih, shortly before she was killed for her beliefs, reportedly told her jailers "You may kill me as soon as you like, but you will not stop the emancipation of women".

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