Letter of December 22, 1956
Haifa, Israel,
December 22, 1956.
DEAL WITH EACH CASE INDIVIDUALLY
National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of Canada.
I have been instructed on behalf of our beloved Guardian to answer the questions raised in your recent letter.
There are two things which he wishes to impress upon you. The first is that depriving people of their voting rights is the heaviest sanction which can be imposed at the present time (with the exception of excommunication, which is a right the Guardian has never permitted anyone else to exercise). Therefore, the greatest care should be exerted to try and remedy a situation before depriving anybody of their voting rights, and the action itself should only be taken if absolutely necessary.