Resentment
The temptation to react sharply and defensively is very great, yet we know that, as Trustees of the Merciful, we should not do so. Not only is it contrary to the spirit of the instructions of the Master and the Guardian, with which you are thoroughly familiar, but giving vent to such reaction tends to evoke resentment rather than bringing about the desired result.
- Letter from the Universal House of Justice, dated January 25, 1972, to a National Spiritual Assembly
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Idal 19 Kamal 183 B.E.
Also, after quoting the above statement of the Guardian, the following comment was made in another letter: In view of this, the House of Justice has stated that it would not be proper for a Bahá’í to donate semen to a hospital for the artificial insemination of a woman other than his wife.
Universal House of Justice – Lights of Guidance, p. 288