Pastafarian woman gets to wear strainer on head in license photo

[trof]

BOSTON – A Massachusetts agency is letting a woman who belongs to the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster wear a colander on her head in her driver's license photo after she cited her religious beliefs.

Lowell resident Lindsay Miller said Friday that she "absolutely loves the history and the story" of Pastafarians, whose website says has existed in secrecy for hundreds of years and entered the mainstream in 2005. Miller says wearing the spaghetti strainer allows her to express her beliefs, like other religions are allowed to do.

[boston bean]

1. She's going to have to live with that pic on her license for 5 years.

What a kook.

[trof]

2. I love it!

[snooper2]

15. LOL, that is actually a cool hat, you want to see some funny looking religious hats?

[Massacure]

18. What a kook?

I do believe the word you are looking for is 'cook'.

[Baitball Blogger]

20. .

[babylonsister]

3. Love this; do you have a link? Thanks! nt

[trof]

5. Here ya go:

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/11/14/pastafarian-woman-gets-to-wear-strainer-on-head-in-license-photo/

[Warren Stupidity]

4. how is pastafarianism any more ludicrous that other religions?

[trof]

6. I think that's her point.

Bravo for MA!

[JanMichael]

7. ? really? nt

[Warren Stupidity]

8. yeah really

I mean is it the hats?

[JanMichael]

10. being a antipastafarian (unbeliever) is a mental black hole.

as are the others like those crazy jedis and the underground worshipers of the last nuke in one of the early planet of the apes...

[FLPanhandle]

9. Good for her. Show how silly religious exemptions are.

I love Pastafarians.

[whathehell]

13. Enough with the silly false equivalence...It's not "religious" exemptions we're speaking of here..

It's an Islamic "exemption" and we.all know it.

The self-conscious political correctness only brings more attention to it.

[Kalidurga]

11. Good we fight religious extremism one colander at a time.

[madokie]

12. This is kinda off topic but not really

my youngest stepson got his picture taken with a ball cap on for his drivers license. He had to fight like the dickens to get it on his license but he finally won. He is prematurely bald, male pattern baldness type and never ever goes out without a ball cap on and a picture of him without his cap on does not look like him at all.

[surrealAmerican]

19. I think that is the larger point here.

It's an arbitrary rule, that should not require a religion to break. So long as the person is clearly identifiable in the photo, their attire ought not be relevant.

In your stepson's case, they would not have even asked him to remove a toupee, but the hat ...

[JonathanRackham]

14. Obviously

Using her noodle.

[trof]

16. Ba-da-BING!

[cherokeeprogressive]

17. Straining to make the world a better place...

And failing miserably.

[JonathanRackham]

21. Sweet

LOL