Pagan priest wins right to wear goat horns in Maine ID photo

[jpak]

Source: Bangor Daily News

It doesn’t matter how many articles of clothing Phelan Moonsong puts on before walking out the door each day. If he’s not wearing his favorite pair of goat horns, the Pagan priest might as well be naked.

Unless the 56-year-old Millinocket, Maine, man is sleeping or bathing, his beloved horns are rarely far from his scalp.

It’s been that way since he first laid eyes on the horns at a Pagan men’s group gathering in 2009. A friend whose goat had recently died offered the horns to group members. Nobody else wanted the dead goat’s hardware. Moonsong couldn’t believe his luck

So he took the horns home, drilled small holes in each one and attached them to his forehead using stretchy, 50-pound fishing line that he wrapped around his head like an invisible skull cap.

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Read more: http://bangordailynews.com/2016/12/18/news/state/pagan-priest-wins-right-to-wear-goat-horns-in-maine-id-photo/

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[HAB911]

1. Much cleaner look than

[KittyWampus]

6. Fish Heads?

[TexasMommaWithAHat]

7. LOL

I'm pretty sure the pope isn't wear that hat in his driver's license photo! (And he does drive.)

[bucolic_frolic]

2. I keep waiting for these guys

to, you know, do something powerful

[paleotn]

3. don't hold your breath.

[mountain grammy]

4. Please be real, please be real

Best news in weeks

[MADem]

5. It's the Bangor Daily News--they're a well-known regional paper that covers the

Millinocket area where this idiot lives.

[Jake Stern]

11. He isn't an idiot

If a Muslim woman can wear a hijab in her DL photo then why shouldn't he be allowed to wear goat horns? In fact those horns allow the majority of his face and head to bee seen, unlike a hijab.

[MADem]

13. Hijab may be OTT in USA, but it serves a purpose.

It keeps hair out of the face and the head warm. Aside from a religious element, it also has practical applications. It's a close cousin to the Russian scarf get - up that Americans call "babushka" (which actually means Grandma) that is designed as a hair cover AND a hat.

Horns are simply an ostentatious and rather stupid decoration. They don't keep your head warm or your hair in place, particularly if they're attached by "stretchy fishing line."

I maintain that he's an idiot.

Immature, too.

No law against that, though.

If he wants to be photographed looking like a nitwit on an image that his humiliated descendants can view a hundred years hence, let him. He'll be the Pride of Millinocket, he will!

[Yupster]

15. And I've got to say

They look good on him.

[Jacob Boehme]

8. Id love to know how many Fundies end up having apoplectic seizures over this one. n/t

[MADem]

14. Probably none.

Now, if he were a "MOOOSE-lem" horn wearing, no-driver's-license, need my ABC card "free spirit," they'd probably have plenty to say.

[Chemisse]

9. You'd think the DMV would be thrilled to have an identifying feature right on the license.

Either way, if it doesn't obstruct the face or hinder with identification, who cares?

I'm glad that he won, and I like the idea that there is some guy in Maine who gets up every morning and puts on horns.

[YOHABLO]

10. Oh and then there is this crowd. Wacko nut cases in the millions.

[Staph]

12. I didn't know

that Dr. Harold Bornstein was a Pagan!

[leftyladyfrommo]

16. Who cares? nt

[LanternWaste]

17. I'm sure he's a well-reasoned, rational virgin.

I'm sure he's a well-reasoned, rational virgin, and his Harry Potter wizard's cap and wand were simply too bulky to show in the photo. Certainly, any man who wears goat horns is an example to us all who never get the chance to go to ComiCon

[TheCowsCameHome]

18. Well, the horns work,

not so sure about the wipers and lights, though.

[yellowcanine]

19. If he agrees to always wear the horns while driving I have no problem with it.

Maybe they can put a code on the license - SHG - specialized head gear required - see photo.