Bahá'í teachings on sexual morality
centre on marriage and the family as the bedrock of the whole structure of
human society and are designed to protect and strengthen that divine
institution. Thus Bahá'í law restricts permissible sexual intercourse to that
between a man and the woman to whom he is married.
Thus, it should not be so much a matter
of whether a practicing homosexual can be a Bahá'í as whether, having become a
Bahá'í, the homosexual can overcome his problem through knowledge of the
teachings and reliance on Bahá'u'lláh. (14 March 1973 written on hehalf of the Universal
House of Justice; compilation ‘Homosexuality’, prepared by the Research
Department of the Universal House of Justice)
