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trof

(54,274 posts) Sat Nov 14, 2015, 07:14 AM Nov 2015

Pastafarian woman gets to wear strainer on head in license photo [View all]

BOSTON – A Massachusetts agency is letting a woman who belongs to the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster wear a colander on her head in her driver's license photo after she cited her religious beliefs.

Lowell resident Lindsay Miller said Friday that she "absolutely loves the history and the story" of Pastafarians, whose website says has existed in secrecy for hundreds of years and entered the mainstream in 2005. Miller says wearing the spaghetti strainer allows her to express her beliefs, like other religions are allowed to do.

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Pastafarian woman gets to wear strainer on head in license photo [View all] trof Nov 2015 OP

She's going to have to live with that pic on her license for 5 years. boston bean Nov 2015 #1

I love it! trof Nov 2015 #2

LOL, that is actually a cool hat, you want to see some funny looking religious hats? snooper2 Nov 2015 #15

What a kook? Massacure Nov 2015 #18

. Baitball Blogger Nov 2015 #20

Love this; do you have a link? Thanks! nt babylonsister Nov 2015 #3

Here ya go: trof Nov 2015 #5

how is pastafarianism any more ludicrous that other religions? Warren Stupidity Nov 2015 #4

I think that's her point. trof Nov 2015 #6

? really? nt JanMichael Nov 2015 #7

yeah really Warren Stupidity Nov 2015 #8

being a antipastafarian (unbeliever) is a mental black hole. JanMichael Nov 2015 #10

Good for her. Show how silly religious exemptions are. FLPanhandle Nov 2015 #9

Enough with the silly false equivalence...It's not "religious" exemptions we're speaking of here.. whathehell Nov 2015 #13

Good we fight religious extremism one colander at a time. Kalidurga Nov 2015 #11

This is kinda off topic but not really madokie Nov 2015 #12

I think that is the larger point here. surrealAmerican Nov 2015 #19

Obviously JonathanRackham Nov 2015 #14

Ba-da-BING! trof Nov 2015 #16

Straining to make the world a better place... cherokeeprogressive Nov 2015 #17

Sweet JonathanRackham Nov 2015 #21