rasmandingo wrote"...For INI Rasta must mean inclusion of everyone,"

I think if you look at the tradition of the bobo shanty and the nyahbinghi this is not so. There is a clear seperation.Its a holy order and seperates its self from the general populus, by its hair its dress its ceremony its camps etc..as the contributor to this board, h. henry says "good from evil." so i would say historically rastafari faith has not been and probably will not be "inclusive of everyone" as you said.I saw a gay rastafari yahoo club the other day. i doubt, for example, rasta would be inclusive of such a concept. a