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...bidding to supplant Judaism as America's second largest faith. In 1978 the Interfaith Conference of Metropolitan Washington became the first major interfaith organization to include Muslims alongside the Catholics, Protestants and Jews. It has since admitted Mormons and Sikhs; Hindus will probably be next. Other prospects: Buddhists, Baha...
...those years too that he met the dancer Lorraine Willis, to whom he * would be married ever after. He steered wide of the sundry social temptations of the musical life and, in 1968, became a member of the Baha'i faith. Personally, Dizzy was on the square and strictly legit; he fronted the first jazz band ever sent on a subsidized tour by the State Department, referred to President Dwight Eisenhower as "Pops," got Jimmy Carter to sing Salt Peanuts at the White House and copped one of those fancy medals from the Kennedy Center. He even...
...important sect or cult has been born for decades. The colorful creeds from olden times are tiny or extinct, among them Baha'i, One-Faith, Christian Science, Jehovah's Witnesses and the Hemlockite death cult. Of the assorted new revelations that were announced toward the end of the second millennium, only Mormonism maintains global reach, but it remains relatively small. On the other hand, the ancient forms of Hinduism and Buddhism, once considered near- cults in the U.S., have become sizable and respectable there...
Premarital sex is "one of the most frequently discussed topics of college-age Baha'is Mohadjer says, adding that when in college, she foundthat to be the area of most peer pressure. "Peopledidn't understand that for me it was never anissue," she says. "You have to be very careful howclose you get to people. You have to be firm aboutit earlier rather than later because later is muchtoo late...
Chen also says the laws are no problem for her."Before I became a Baha'i I partied so hard--thenI got it out of my system so there's absolutely notemptation...