Word: sects
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...your article "Battle Over Schools": When pressure from a certain religious denomination can strike such terror in the minds and hearts of our governmental leaders that they feel compelled to alter their legislation as this sect so desires, can we, as Americans, truly say that in this country the church and state are separate...
...through a reform of sorts, if they obey Elijah's injunction to give up tobacco, dope and alcohol and pray five times daily facing Mecca. Their demands for separate religious services are firmly denied by most prison authorities, on the ground that they are not a religious sect (the 100,000 authentic Moslems in the U.S. heatedly disavow Elijah and his followers). They must shave their goatees. When pork appears on prison menus, Muslims disdain it.* Mess-hall fighting has been touched off when they have attempted to impose their dietary laws on other prisoners. Elijah's bizarre...
...They gave directions." The sect's leader seemed like "a kind fellow," wrote the patrol captain, until "one suddenly remembered a sequence in a documentary film about the atrocious doings of the sectarians. This same face was thrust back, gazing aloft, his hands supplicating God. trembling in ecstasy, and by his mad praying infecting dozens of ignorant folk. The man in front of us was not just someone who was sincerely misled. In front of us was the enemy...
...Karate King. The high priest of Hollywood's fast-growing karate sect, and host at last week's exhibition, is a black-maned, 6-ft., 210-lb. devout Mormon named Ed Parker, who, he says, learned the deadly, lightning-fast ballet in his native Honolulu in order to avoid getting into fights with friends who taunted him because he did not drink or smoke. After serving a Coast Guard hitch during the Korean War and graduating from Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, he moved to Pasadena, opened his first karate studio four years ago, started a second...
...others: the Rabbi Joel Teitelbaum and the Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson of the so-called Lubavitcher sect, both established in Brooklyn's Williamsburg section...