The organs in the body are separated but not divorced, they are harmonized in an organic unity,each has a function to keep the body healthy. Read Bahá’u’lláh quoting Apostle Paul in His last heavy book.

There is a difference between believers as citizens and the Bahai institutions. The separation of church and state means that religious institutions have no role in politics, while what restrains us as individual citizens is that whatever we do should (1) build unity and (2) not inadvertently lead the Bahai community to be identified with the programme of a party or of a country. Number 2 means that Bahais will be very much limited until the real Bahai teachings are so widely known that they cannot be misunderstood or misrepresented AND until this is the case in a good number of countries. The problem is that a Bahai standing for some cause in one country may be used as a stick to beat the Bahais in another country.

The UHJ is also separate from the world government. The government should have legislative judicial and executive arms, all concerned with worldly affairs. The UHJ is legislative judiciary and executive for the Bahai community. Shoghi Effendi says ““Theirs is not the purpose … to violate, under any circumstances, the provisions of their country’s constitution, much less to allow the machinery of their administration to supersede the government…” (The World Order of Baha’u’llah 66)

“Should they place in the arena the crown of the government of the whole world, and invite each one of us to accept it, undoubtedly we shall not condescend” (Tablets of the Divine Plan 51)

When a politician’s name is mentioned, we are 1) backbiting 2) placing ourselves to seem to be member’s of one party or another. Talking about the environment, morals, leadership, etc, WITHOUT mentioning names seems to me to be the way to go. What do u think?