A collection of chronologically issued answers to some of the questions submitted by individual believers and institutions

1/24/2017

Debarring an individual believer from serving on a Local Spiritual Assembly - January 31, 1972

It is also quite permissible for a National Spiritual Assembly to debar an individual believer from serving on a Local Spiritual Assembly without removing his or her voting rights and they may also debar a believer from attending the consultative part of a Nineteen Day Feast. You may also debar a believer from voting in elections without imposing all the other administrative sanctions involved in administrative expulsion. 
- The Universal House of Justice  (From a letter dated 31 January 1972; Developing Distinctive Baha'i Communities, NSA of USA, 1998 edition)