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...father was out of work, so instead he hit the market and got jobs in repertory productions of Grease and The Rocky Horror Picture Show and sang in a moderately successful band, Roman Antix. After enduring the usual amateur lows--including a job as the star of a Seventh-Day Adventist in-house video--he caught his first big break at 25, when he was cast in a low-budget film, The Crossing. The director, George Ogilvie, says he asked Crowe which role he wanted to play. "All of them," Crowe responded...
...paper suggested that low-protein diets (associated with vegetarians) reduce calcium absorption and may have a negative impact on skeletal health. And although several studies on Seventh-Day Adventists (typically vegetarians) indicated that they have a longer-than-average life expectancy, other studies found that prostate-cancer rates were high in Adventists, and one study found that Adventists were more likely to suffer hip fractures...
There is no doubt that the supporters of the bill have good intentions. And they are right in thinking that for most of the nation's history, courts have generally favored religious claims. Judges have ruled that Amish kids couldn't be forced to attend school and that Seventh-Day Adventists do not have to work on Saturdays. But that approach changed in 1990, when conservative Justice Antonin Scalia wrote a Supreme Court decision that angered and frightened many religious people. In Employment Division v. Smith, Scalia said religious claims cannot be used to justify violating laws as long...
...satanism at all. Their paganism is drawn from pre-Christian European tribal religions that invoke spirits in nature and celebrate the seasons. They do not sacrifice animals or cast evil spells. Ron and Marie Smith, recently retired Army colonels, became Wiccans after having tried the Episcopal Church and Seventh-Day Adventism. "I was raised in the country, and in church I always felt enclosed," says Ron, 53, who is now a registered nurse, as is his wife. "I feel close to God in nature." Ron and Marie say they have paid a price for their beliefs. "We have had persistent...
...nearly 5% of the public school enrollment, now use vouchers to escape the public school system. In a controversial move, Ohio chose to include religious schools in the program. Today the vast majority of vouchers are used at more than 50 religious schools--Roman Catholic, Lutheran, Baptist, Islamic and Seventh-Day Adventist. (The U.S. Supreme Court has not yet decided if tax-funded vouchers for religious schools violate the First Amendment's separation of church and state.) The remaining vouchers are used at a handful of secular private schools, including two Hope academies, founded specifically for voucher children...