If you’re Lindsay Miller of MA, that’s when you grab your lawyer and fight back.
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A woman in MA who identifies herself as a follower of a religion that teaches the possibility of an airborne “spaghetti monster” having created the universe, Pastafarianism, has won the right to wear a colander on her head in her state issued driver’s license photo.
Miller fought the initial decision banning her from wearing the strainer, and after an intervention by the American Humanist Association’s Appignani Humanist Legal Center, she was granted the religious freedom that would allow here to be pictured with a colander on her head.
She says she helped Miller, who sought the same protections afforded to people who belong to other religions.
In this November 12, 2015 photo provided by Darrick Fauvel, Lindsay Miller of Lowell, Mass., wears a spaghetti strainer to reflect her religious beliefs while holding her temporary driver license that also bears a photo of her wearing the colander. Life is about victories both big and small. “But my understanding, and my view of it, is that it’s a secular religion that uses parody to make certain points about a belief system”, said DeJuneas.
The registry had denied Miller’s request to wear a spaghetti strainer, citing its regulation that “A hat or other head cover is not acceptable, but if worn for medical or religious reasons, it may be allowed if it does not hide any facial features”.
Verseckes said he didn’t know if Miller was the first person in the state to wear a colander in a license photo.
‘If people are given the right to wear religious garments in government ID photos, then this must extend to people who follow the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, ‘ she added.
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The Pastafarians are a loose organization that hold the existence of a Flying Spaghetti Monster is as likely as the existence of a Christian deity.
