Pastafarian wins the religious right to wear spaghetti colander in MA state ID picture [View all]

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A member of the atheist spoof religion Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster has won the right to wear a spaghetti colander on her head in her driver’s license photo, according to the American Humanist Association.

Lindsay Miller is a “pastafarian,” which is how members of the group identify themselves. But the Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles wouldn’t allow her to wear the colander on her head in her official state picture. Pastafarians wear colanders on their heads as a sign of their membership in the organization.

“As a member of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, I feel delighted that my Pastafarianism has been respected by the Massachusetts RMV,” Miller said in a statement. “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.”

The Pastafarians are a loose organization that hold the existence of a Flying Spaghetti Monster is as likely as the existence of a Christian deity. They also say their religious text instructs them to believe that humans evolved from pirates and that heaven is comprised of a beer volcano and stripper factory.

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/11/pastafarian-wins-the-religious-right-to-wear-spaghetti-colander-in-ma-state-id-picture/