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
Arctic Dave
(13,812 posts)May his noodlely appendages touch you.
silvershadow
(10,336 posts)AnotherDreamWeaver
(2,846 posts)and I think there was someone before this guy;
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-14135523
AnotherDreamWeaver
(2,846 posts)I got the links from a DU post I'm sure, but sent them out to friends. The above was in July, 2011, so he was first. This guy was in an August, 2013 Post:
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/08/02/2399191/pastafarian-man-wins-religious-liberty-battle-to-wear-a-pasta-sieve-on-his-government-id-card/
AnotherDreamWeaver
(2,846 posts)excringency
(105 posts)they're actually "Spätzlefarian" heretics.
calimary
(80,700 posts)starroute
(12,977 posts)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. . . .
Romanovs 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 Gods 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 Wills founder, Dmitry Enteo, posted on his Twitter feed that Pastafarianism is a blasphemous smear against Christianity.
rationalcalgarian
(294 posts)Is a blasphemous smear against humanity