Pomfret (NY) councilman sworn in wearing colander

[struggle4progress]

January 3, 2014
By GREG FOX - OBSERVER Staff Writer , The OBSERVER

A unique style of headwear was present during newly-seated Pomfret Town Council member Christopher Schaeffer's oath of office Thursday afternoon ... Schaeffer wore a colander (a strainer typically used to drain water from spaghetti) while Town Clerk Allison Dispense administered the oath of office to him before the board's reorganizational meeting ... Schaeffer said he was a minister with .. the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster ...

http://www.observertoday.com/page/content.detail/id/592593/-Strainer--things-have-happened.html
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024279574

[Laelth]

1. Excellent. k&r for exposure. n/t

-Laelth

[edhopper]

2. The noodle is so much more universally adulated

than any of the myriad Gods of all the other religions. Whether it is Udon or Pasta or Spaetzle or Rice Vermageli, it is loved and adored in all cultures. The FSM would seem a much closer vision of the Lord than all the other contradictory concepts.
May you salt the water.

[pokerfan]

3. RAmen

Those who criticize him for this — and a lot of commenters at the Observer, where this story was first reported, are doing just that — are missing the point. This wasn’t an anti-religious gesture or even a gesture to make a mockery of local politics. It was a statement showing that Schaeffer represents everybody, no matter their religious faith, an idea that doesn’t really come across when politicians put their hands on the Bible.
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2014/01/05/pastafarian-wins-election-to-town-board-and-takes-oath-with-a-colander-on-his-head/

Our saucer which art in a colander, draining be Your noodles. Thy noodle come, Thy meatballness be done on earth, as it is meaty in heaven. Give us this day our daily sauce, and forgive us our lack of piracy, as we pirate and smuggle against those who lack piracy with us. And lead us not into vegetarianism, but deliver us from non-red meat sauce. For thine is the colander, the noodle, and the sauce, forever and ever. RAmen.