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Title: Georgia Pastafarian can wear colander in Nevada license photo
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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
URL Source: http://www.myajc.com/news/news/loca ... r-colander-in-nevada-li/nqMWw/
Published: Feb 28, 2016
Author: Arielle Kass
Post Date: 2016-02-28 23:02:54 by Hondo68
Keywords: None
Views: 3588
Comments: 18
When Chris Avino learned he would have to take a new driver’s license photo — this time, without a colander on his head — he vowed to fight the state of Georgia until the colander received the same religious headdress status as any hijab or yarmulke. There was just one problem: by the time Avino was told that he’d need a new photo, he’d already moved from his parents’ Snellville address. Instead of fighting to keep it on his noodle in Georgia, Avino simply got a Nevada driver’s license in mid-January. That state let him wear a colander in his photo. “I was tired of waiting,” Avino said in an email. Avino is a Pastafarian, and claims that the colander is his religious headdress. Pastafarians belong to the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, a tongue-in-cheek group that substitutes eight “I’d Really Rather You Didn’ts” for the Ten Commandments. Though they have been accused of being anti-religion, members are “anti-crazy nonsense done in the name of religion,” according to the church’s website. But Georgia didn’t recognize the group as a religion, and Department of Driver Services general counsel Angelique McClendon said in a letter that he needed a colander-free driver’s license photo. “A colander is not a veil, scarf or headdress,” she said. “A colander is a kitchen utensil commonly used for ‘washing or draining food.’” Avino maintains that he should have been allowed to wear the colander. “If, for whatever reason, I move back to Georgia in the future, I will absolutely have my identification photo taken again wearing my religious headdress,” he wrote. “If I meet any resistance in that matter, my plan would be to find a lawyer myself and sue the Georgia Department of Driver Services for infringing on my constitutional rights.” In Surrey, B.C. the struggle continues.... http://bc.ctvnews.ca/pastafarian-fights-to-wear-colander-in-b-c-driver-s-licence-photo-1.1959706#ixzz3AQ34jckB Poster Comment: Is the State of Georgia trying to ban Catholic convert Newt Gingrich from wearing a pope hat, or what? If they can ban Pastifarians today, they can ban Christians tomorrow.
Mass. woman wins fight to wear colander in driver’s license by citing ‘pastafarian’ religion
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Nutso Koo Koo
#3. To: Stoner, Justified (#1)
Nutso Koo Koo To us it's crazy, but from a legal standpoint their freedom of religion is a constitutionally protected right under the 1st amendment. What's really crazy is Georgia officials telling them what is state approved religious headdress. Government officials don't get to decide religious dogma. So.... Governor Moonbeam Brown doesn't get to define what "Christian" means to me!
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Replies to Comment # 1. Department of Driver Services general counsel Angelique McClendon... “A colander is not a veil, scarf or headdress,” she said. “A colander is a kitchen utensil commonly used for ‘washing or draining food.’”
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