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TexasTowelie

(117,042 posts)
Fri Feb 17, 2017, 04:47 AM Feb 2017

Pastafarian colander pic strains legality for Dutch license

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A Dutch court has upheld a mayor's refusal to issue a driver's license to a man who submitted a photo of himself wearing a colander on his head.

According to a court statement Wednesday, the man wanted the photo on his license as an expression of his Pastafarian faith.

Pastafarians belong to the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, a parody group that began in the U.S. in 2005 protesting religion encroaching into the nation's public schools.

The mayor of the Dutch city of Eindhoven last year rejected the man's request, in part because he ruled that the group couldn't be considered a genuine religion. Religious headdresses are allowed on Dutch passport photos.

The court agreed, saying that Pastafarian faith "did not show sufficient seriousness to be considered a religion."

Source: http://www.caledonianrecord.com/news/strange/pastafarian-colander-pic-strains-legality-for-dutch-license/article_d59586b4-e9a7-5a2a-a1b4-42c3359db6a2.html

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Pastafarian colander pic strains legality for Dutch license (Original Post) TexasTowelie Feb 2017 OP
Now that is simply sad Sherman A1 Feb 2017 #1
Just call the headgear a yamakolander and claim to be Matzafarian Freelancer Feb 2017 #2
Always happy to read hermetic Feb 2017 #3

Sherman A1

(38,958 posts)
1. Now that is simply sad
Fri Feb 17, 2017, 05:17 AM
Feb 2017

Perhaps if he had arrived with a box of Spaghetti instead of the traditional colander?

Freelancer

(2,107 posts)
2. Just call the headgear a yamakolander and claim to be Matzafarian
Fri Feb 17, 2017, 10:35 AM
Feb 2017

The FSM grants special concessions to its people in trying times... in its mercy.

May it remain forever al dente.

(Matzofarian?)

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