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presence
08-14-2014, 07:16 PM
August 14, 2014 9:53AM PDT An unusual religious headwear battle has hit a boiling point in Surrey, B.C., where a “Pastafarian” is fighting for his right to wear a colander in his driver’s licence photo.



Read more: http://bc.ctvnews.ca/pastafarian-fights-to-wear-colander-in-b-c-driver-s-licence-photo-1.1959706#ixzz3AQ34jckB




I think the guy brings up a great point... these days you're either a Jew, Christian, or Muslim or you have no religious rights.

http://images.glaciermedia.ca/polopoly_fs/1.1312884.1408040496!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/feature_407_267/obi-canuel.jpg

Suzanimal
08-14-2014, 09:26 PM
At least four countries, including the U.S., allow Pastafarians to wear colanders in their driver’s licence photos.

Read more: http://bc.ctvnews.ca/pastafarian-fights-to-wear-colander-in-b-c-driver-s-licence-photo-1.1959706#ixzz3AQZfBKIv


:D I need a Pastafarian drivers license.

Dr.3D
08-14-2014, 09:32 PM
Can't somebody be a Christian Pastafarian?

fr33
08-14-2014, 09:40 PM
Can't somebody be a Christian Pastafarian?

I think the 2 doctrines contradict each other.

Dr.3D
08-14-2014, 09:51 PM
I think the 2 doctrines contradict each other.
I dunno, I like spaghetti and most other forms of pasta and I'm a Christian.

Suzanimal
08-15-2014, 07:24 AM
Can't somebody be a Christian Pastafarian?

I'm one, if it gets me a cool driver license photo. I usually make a goofy face, I think a colander would give it a little something extra.:)

Suzanimal
11-13-2015, 08:17 PM
Mass. woman wins fight to wear colander in driver’s license by citing ‘pastafarian’ religion


Some states ban smiling in driver’s license photos, but wearing a colander on one’s head is apparently allowed.

A Massachusetts woman this week won the right to wear a colander on her head in her driver’s license photo after citing religious reasons. Lindsay Miller identifies as a “Pastafarian” and member of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, which some critics call a parody religion.

She tried to wear the kitchen utensil in her driver’s license photo this year but the Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles denied her request. However, after intervention by the American Humanist Association’s Appignani Humanist Legal Center:confused: the RMV recently reversed its stance.

Ms. Miller said she was delighted that the agency allowed her to don a colander for her driver’s license, which was issued Thursday.

“While I don’t think the government can involve itself in matters of religion, I do hope this decision encourages my fellow Pastafarian Atheists to come out and express themselves as I have,” Ms. Miller said.


The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster spawned out of a letter that Oregon State University graduate Bobby Henderson penned to the Kansas State Board of Education in 2005. He wrote to protest the board’s decision to permit the teaching intelligent design as an alternative to evolution in public school science classes, suggesting that students should “hear multiple viewpoints” of how the universe came to be, including the idea that a Flying Spaghetti Monster created it.

And though many describe the religion as a farce, believers defend it as legitimate, stating on their website that the religion is “backed by hard science. Anything that comes across as humor or satire is purely coincidental.”

The lighthearted religion opposes the teaching of creationism and intelligent design but believes that Fridays are national holidays, beer should be celebrated, and that pirates were the original “pastafarians.”

“If people are given the right to wear religious garments in government ID photos, then this must extend to people who follow the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster,” said David Niose, legal director of the Appignani Humanist Legal Center.

Despite Ms. Miller’s victory in Massachusetts, not everyone has taken such an evenhanded view of the church.

In October, a Canadian judge issued a rebuke of court case in which a Montreal woman sought permission to wear a colander or pirate hat in her driver’s license photo.

“Too many people implicated in real litigation with consequences that could affect their lives or those of their children or enterprise are waiting their turn in court for us to be silent about the monopolization of these resources to determine if the plaintiff can be photographed wearing a colander or pirate hat,” said Quebec Superior Court Judge Stéphane Sansfaçon, according to Canadian newspaper the National Post. “We forget too often that the courts are a public service with limited resources that must not be abused.”

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/nov/13/woman-wins-fight-wear-colander-drivers-license/

Suzanimal
02-28-2016, 08:41 PM
Georgia is anti-pasta?:eek::mad:


Atlanta Pastafarian told she can’t have license photo with colander

An Atlanta woman who claimed her religion required her to take her driver’s license photo with a colander on her head has been told by the state Department of Driver Services that she must retake the photo.

Ann Zhang, who identifies as a Pastafarian — a tongue-in-cheek group that values science as religion — successfully took the picture with a colander as a hat for her temporary driver’s license.

But in a letter dated Feb. 18 that Zhang received Wednesday, the department’s general counsel told her that a new photograph would have to be taken. While state rules allow someone to wear a veil, scarf or headdress, “a colander is not a veil, scarf or headdress,” the letter said.

“Identification cards or driver’s licenses issued by our agency are used for official identification purposes and contain information and depictions necessary for government function,” the letter said. “The photographs are used as identification credentials and biometric identifiers. Identification cards or driver’s licenses are not issued by DDS as a means for personal expression.”

The three-paragraph letter does not mention Pastafarianism, though a December letter sent to Gwinnett resident Chris Avino, who had also taken a picture with a colander on his head said, “Pastafarianism is not a religion. Rather it is a philosophy that mocks religion.”

“Our research shows that ‘Pastafarianism’ was first referenced in a letter to the Kansas State Board of Education in 2005 after the board mandated the teaching of creationism in the form of ‘intelligent design,’ the December letter to Avino said. “DDS does not view satire or mockery of a religion as a religion.”

Avino has since moved out of state. On his new Nevada driver’s license, he sports a colander.

A spokeswoman for the DDS said she had no further comment about the letter, and was not aware of any others that had been sent.

Zhang, who went to IKEA to try on colanders before she took her driver’s license picture, was told to take a new picture before her temporary license expires at the end of March. She said she intends to fight for the right to wear the colander in her photo.

“Yea of course,” Zhang wrote in a text message.

http://www.ajc.com/news/news/local-govt-politics/atlanta-pastafarian-told-she-cant-have-license-pho/nqX5c/

heavenlyboy34
02-28-2016, 08:59 PM
Can't somebody be a Christian Pastafarian?
No. Pastafarianism dramatically conflicts with every denomination and Church I've heard of.

Suzanimal
12-21-2016, 08:04 AM
http://i.imgur.com/LSHOWoA.png


Pagan priest finally allowed to wear goat horns in license photo

After an extended waiting period, a Pagan priest finally snagged the go-ahead to wear goat horns in his new Maine license photo.

As Phelan MoonSong tells the Washington Post, the ordained priest rarely removes his horns, as they serve as spiritual antennae and are part of his Pagan attire.

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Still, when MoonSong visited the Department of Motor Vehicles in August, he says an employee told him he'd need to appeal his photo with the Maine Secretary of State's office. This, despite the fact that his horns do not obstruct his face.

According to the Associated Press, though MoonSong learned his photo was initially rejected in November, his request has since been accepted.

MoonSong told the Bangor Daily News that during his initial visit to the DMV, he told an employee that he is an ordained Pagan minister. However, a Maine Secretary of State's office spokesperson told the local newspaper that MoonSong did not initially cite the horns' religious significance.

"He did not cite religious reasons," she told the paper. "There are exceptions for religious headdress."

After about five months since his initial request, MoonSong finally received his new identification card in early December.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/pagan-priest-finally-allowed-wear-233126756.html


Reminded me of Pan and in a comment he made, that was his intention. I can't think of Pan without thinking of Jitterbug Perfume. I didn't like that book the first time I read it but I reread it last summer and fell in love with it.

“Our individuality is all, all, that we have. There are those who barter it for security, those who repress it for what they believe is the betterment of the whole society, but blessed in the twinkle of the morning star is the one who nurtures it and rides it in, in grace and love and wit, from peculiar station to peculiar station along life's bittersweet route.”
― Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume

pcosmar
12-21-2016, 09:45 AM
No. Pastafarianism dramatically conflicts with every denomination and Church I've heard of.

Pastafarianism is a spoiled brats response to things they don't understand, and therefore don't like.

invented to protest Intelligent Design, as opposed to evolution.

Anti Federalist
12-21-2016, 09:56 AM
http://i.imgur.com/4xt2ghv.jpg

heavenlyboy34
12-21-2016, 11:54 AM
http://i.imgur.com/4xt2ghv.jpg
They almost look like Russia. :) http://thefashiontag.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/russian-fashion-trend-temperley-london-fall-winter-2012-2013-3.jpg

timosman
12-21-2016, 12:12 PM
http://i.imgur.com/4xt2ghv.jpg

Everybody knows pigs are human ancestors except christians.:eek: