What a noodle brain!
A Pastafarian displayed her allegiance to the Flying Spaghetti Monster in her Massachusetts driver’s license photo.
Lindsay Miller of Lowell, Mass. cited that her religious beliefs as a member of the “Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster” should allow her to wear the metal pasta strainer on her head during the photo.
Miller was previously denied a license renewal in August under Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles policy that does not permit hats or head coverings except for religious reasons.
“They were kind of laughing at me,” Miller told the Boston Globe.
“I thought of other religions and women and thought that this was not fair. I thought, ‘Just because you haven’t heard of this belief system, [the RMV] should not be denying me a license,” she said.
Pastafarians — members of “The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster” — use parody to make a point about religion.
“The fact that many see this is as a satirical religion doesn’t change the fact that by any standard one can come up with our religion is as legitimate as any other. And *that* is the point,” according to a posting on the church’s web site.
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The web site claims the church has been in existence for hundreds of years and came into the mainstream in 2005 after an open letter was penned by Bobby Henderson to the Kansas School Board in response to the district’s teachings on evolution.
At the end of his letter, Henderson included a drawing of “Him” — the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
Miller said she became a part of the church because it’s all all-inclusive and accepting of everyone.
She added that she “absolutely loves the history and the story” of Pastafarians.
It’s no cost to become a Pastafarian and there are no hoops to jump through, according to the church.
However, it costs $25 to be ordained as a Pastafarian minister.
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“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,” David Niose, legal director of the Appignani Humanist Legal Center, told the Washington Times.
After months without an ID, Miller is happy the RMV changed its mind on Tuesday.
She also isn’t the first to done a strainer on her license.
Pastafarians in Utah and Missouri have also honored the Spaghetti Monster in state ID photos.
In 2014, a town councilor in Pomfret, N.Y. sported a strainer when he took his oath for office.
