• Rosario Zavala
  • Lucia Pane

Chicagoans is a first-person account from off the beaten track, as told to Anne Ford. This week’s Chicagoan is Baha’i follower Lucia Pane.

Baha’i don’t drink or do drugs, and we believe in waiting to have sex until marriage. Homosexuality—that’s a loaded question. It’s between that person and God, and it’s not our place to judge. I have many friends who identify themselves as being homosexual, and they are lovely people. But marriage was set up in the Baha’i faith as being between a man and a woman. It’s a hard question to answer.