No. Marriage is between a man and a woman. Also, sex is only permitted between a man and his wife.

As humanity matured through many civilizations, Baha'is believe that God manifested the Holy Spirit in many Messengers (ie., Krishna, Moses, etc.) to give Divine guidance. With each appearance of one of God's anointed Messengers, we became ready to learn deeper spiritual truths and practice greater levels of extending ourselves to our fellow man. Baha'is believe that mankind is now ready to recognize and accept some of the Faith's basic tenets toward the goal of the promised eventual world unity: the oneness of humanity, the equality of women and men, the harmony of science and religion, the elimination of prejudices, mandatory education, spiritual solutions to economic extremes, a secondary universal language, and others. Teachings of the Baha'i Faith connect the personal with the global and the practical with the spiritual, providing ways of living with one another in unity.
In terms of the physcial landscape, from what I can tell they have no specific thoughts or rules concerning it. They are just normal people - not radical environmentalists, but also not people who want to pave over the whole earth.

In Persian "baha" means glory/glorious; the "i" following the apostrophe stands for follower of. "Baha'i" therefore means "follower of the glory (of God)."

The title is "The Secret of Divine Civilization". The Wikipedia states that it was written in 1875; assuming that is correct, Abdu'l-Bahá was probably in Akká at that time. Today, Akká is in Israel.

The spelling shown above IS the Arabic, the English translation of which is "Glory of God." In Arabic script, it is written as بهاء الله‎

Mirza Husayn-'Ali (Baha'u'llah) was born in Tihran, Persia, on 12 November 1817 and died 29 May 1892 near the prison-city of Akka, Israel, where He had spent most of His ministry in exile by joint venture of the Persian Shah and Ottoman Turks.

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Baha'i is Persian for "follower of the glory/light". The Faith's prophet-founder was named Baha'u'llah which means the "Glory of God."

Annelids are helpful in that they burrow in the soil and these burroughs connect to the surface and admit air into the soil (aeration. This also allows water to percolate or pass down into the soil with the aid of gravity. The digestive waste and soil (ingested when feeding) will be deposited on the soil surface thus bringing minerals to the surface to benefit plants.

The Bahai Faith does not use any code in its scriptures, which everyone is encouraged to read for themselves. See the Bahai Reference Library for a good selection of Bahai scriptures, all for free.

The Bahai community today also does not use codes, secret handshakes, etc..

In 1978, the North American Baha'i Temple was added to the National Register of Historic Places, and the Illinois Office of Tourism has named it one of the "Seven Wonders of Illinois."

Persia (today known as Iran)

Maria Montessori was born in Italy and her biography says she was a devout Catholic. There's no indication she was connected in any way with the Baha'i Faith but that doesn't mean this answer is an absolute.

On the contrary, members of the Baha'i Faith DO believe in God. The Baha'i Faith is the newest (1863) of the world's monotheistic religions, believing in one universal Creator. The Creator has been known by many names and each language has its own word for God: Gott, Dios, Allah, etc.

Talk to others of that religion, research online, take courses on it at your local community college/University/cultural center/community center. Move to Haifa, Israel: Baha'i world headquarters is located there; it is beautiful.

The Panamanian Baha'i House of Worship is situated in Cerro Sonsonati. Its address is Apartado 143, Zona 15 Panamá.

They have been the object of a sustained hate-campaign sponsored by the government, and also by anti-Baha'i organisations, and they are themselves censored so that people find it difficult to learn the truth about the Baha'is.

Anti-Baha'ism is to Iranian politics what anti-semitism was to French, Italian and German politics in the 1930s. Recently, anti-Baha'ism and anti-semitism have been fused, as it is increasingly claimed that Baha'is are "really" Jews (which is not true of course, Baha'is are not Jews, but Baha'is do condemn anti-semitism).

see a recent news report from the Jerusalem Post:

http://www.iranpresswatch.org/2009/03/suffocating/

an answer to media attacks from the Bahai community"

http://www.bahai.org/persecution/iran/mediaattacks

and an interview with the author of a recent book on anti-bahaism in Iran:

http://www.iranpresswatch.org/2009/03/dtm-interview/

The Báb taught a new religion, which conflicted in some ways with the existing religion - for example, some people didn't like the claim that there was a new message from God. Also, the priests of the time were concerned about losing their power.

An artist's rendering of a Baha'i five- or nine-pointed star can be any colour(s) of the rainbow that the artist wishes. There isn't a set colour such as is found in the black and white yin and yang symbol of Taoism.

Pre and/or extramarital sexual relations, alcoholic beverages, and political affiliations are the main restrictions.