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And this happened in West Texas of all places.
Texas Tech University issued a student an I.D. card while he was wearing a spaghetti strainer on his head in accordance with his beliefs as a "Pastafarian." The Flying Spaghetti Monster seems to have surpassed Odin in the second most conservative city in the United States. This is believed to be the first instance of a strainer being allowed to be worn in an official identification card in this country.
http://www.kcbd.com/story/23248235/texas-tech-student-allowed-to-wear-pasta-strainer-in-official-dps-photo
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http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/08/24/20153441-humor-failure-in-russia-crackdown-on-pastafarians-shows-kremlin-church-ties?lite
Police and members of a Russian Orthodox group set upon the group last Saturday, knocking some to the ground. Eight members of the church were detained and subsequently charged with organizing an unsanctioned rally. . . .
Alexei Romanov, a member of the Pastafarian Church, called the move and subsequent legal proceedings against it “absurd.” . . .
Romanov’s fellow Pastafarians are falling victim to a recently introduced law that bans insulting the religious feelings of believers. This time members of an unregistered Orthodox Christian group who call themselves “God’s Will,” called the police when they found out about the procession, according to Romanov.
They accused the spaghetti worshipers of insulting the religious feelings of believers – an accusation that, if found to be true by a court of law, can have mean up to three years in jail. God's Will’s founder, Dmitry Enteo, posted on his Twitter feed that “Pastafarianism is a blasphemous smear against Christianity.”
Police and members of a Russian Orthodox group set upon the group last Saturday, knocking some to the ground. Eight members of the church were detained and subsequently charged with organizing an unsanctioned rally. . . .
Alexei Romanov, a member of the Pastafarian Church, called the move and subsequent legal proceedings against it “absurd.” . . .
Romanov’s fellow Pastafarians are falling victim to a recently introduced law that bans insulting the religious feelings of believers. This time members of an unregistered Orthodox Christian group who call themselves “God’s Will,” called the police when they found out about the procession, according to Romanov.
They accused the spaghetti worshipers of insulting the religious feelings of believers – an accusation that, if found to be true by a court of law, can have mean up to three years in jail. God's Will’s founder, Dmitry Enteo, posted on his Twitter feed that “Pastafarianism is a blasphemous smear against Christianity.”
