Assemblies - Loving Parents
He indicated that a National Assembly should be like a loving parent, watching over and helping its children, and not like a stern judge, waiting for an opportunity to display his judicial powers.
- Shoghi Effendi, Lights of Guidance, p. 34
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Jalal 5 Izzat 183 B.E.
No member may be required to leave the meeting, even though personally involved inthe matter to be discussed, although any member may ask permission to be absent from such discussion, and the decision whether or not to grant such permission rests with the Assembly itself.
Universal House of Justice – 18 Nov. 1973, cited in Hawaiian Bahá’í News, #82