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'Pastafarian' refuses to take spaghetti strainer off his head for license photo
nj.com ^ | 02/20/2013 | By Anthony G. Attrino/NJ.com

Posted on 02/22/2013 3:08:54 PM PST by Responsibility2nd

SOUTH BRUNSWICK – Motor vehicle workers in Dayton called police on a man who insisted on wearing a pasta strainer on his head during the taking of his driver’s license photo, according to a police report.

South Brunswick police officers responded to the MVC facility on Route 130 on a call that a man renewing his driver's license refused to remove the strainer on his head, according to a police report. The incident occurred about noon on Saturday, Feb. 2.

The man, Aaron Williams, 25, who gave an Egg Harbor Township address, told motor vehicle workers the strainer was a religious head covering and he had a right to wear it in his driver’s license photo.

Williams said he practices Pastafarianism.

Pastafarianism, or the Church of the Flying Spaghettic Monster, is a movement opposing teaching in schools of intelligent design and creationism.

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TOPICS: Food; Religion
KEYWORDS: antitheist; atheist; pastafarian; religion
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Was gonna post this in the Religion Forum, but decided against it.
1 posted on 02/22/2013 3:09:13 PM PST by Responsibility2nd
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2 posted on 02/22/2013 3:10:07 PM PST by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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If he’d have only worn a burqa....


3 posted on 02/22/2013 3:10:37 PM PST by Paladin2
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I’d really like to see them try to say that in front of God Himself. We’ll see what kind of jokesters they are then.


4 posted on 02/22/2013 3:13:28 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (I can neither confirm or deny that; even if I could, I couldn't - it's classified.)
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I wonder what a tase to his pasta strainer would do.


5 posted on 02/22/2013 3:13:53 PM PST by Berlin_Freeper
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Was gonna post this in the Religion Forum, but decided against it.

See... I knew you were smart.

6 posted on 02/22/2013 3:14:31 PM PST by UCANSEE2 (The monsters are due on Maple Street)
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It’s “scolapasta” in the early texts, I think.


7 posted on 02/22/2013 3:16:45 PM PST by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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If he’d have only worn a burqa....

The truth will set you free, or would have if he'd just listened to you.

8 posted on 02/22/2013 3:19:04 PM PST by UCANSEE2 (The monsters are due on Maple Street)
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Many people in this forum just seem to be missing the point, for some reason. So, who gets to decide when a religion becomes popular enough to warrant accommodations? Obama? Yet another unelected committee? A “popular” vote?


9 posted on 02/22/2013 3:20:37 PM PST by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.")
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10 posted on 02/22/2013 3:23:35 PM PST by Mad Dawgg (If you're going to deny my 1st Amendment rights then I must proceed to the 2nd one...)
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It belongs in the Stupidity Forum!


12 posted on 02/22/2013 3:24:56 PM PST by JaguarXKE (Welcome to the new America.)
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I agree, besides, it does not seem to violate the standard Leftist mantra of “As long as it doesn’t hurt anybody”


13 posted on 02/22/2013 3:26:56 PM PST by Fai Mao
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That’s kind of his point I think.


14 posted on 02/22/2013 2:43:14 PM PST by listenhillary (Courts, law enforcement, roads and national defense should be the extent of government)
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Pichers?

Free beer is the way to go.

15 posted on 02/22/2013 2:48:26 PM PST by Paladin2
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If he’d have only worn a burqa....

I think this is what he's mocking. Kudos to him!

16 posted on 02/22/2013 2:52:42 PM PST by Drew68
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I wonder what a tase to his pasta strainer would do.

Probably send him to Pastafarian heaven with its beer volcanoes and the stripper factory.

17 posted on 02/22/2013 2:53:32 PM PST by 0.E.O
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“Church of the Flying Spaghettic(sic) Monster” founded by Al Dente.


18 posted on 02/22/2013 2:57:27 PM PST by shove_it (Long ago Huxley, Orwell and Rand warned us about 0banana's USA.)
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Betcha he loves, he loves, he loves his colander girl....


19 posted on 02/22/2013 2:59:04 PM PST by mikrofon (Yea-ay-yeah)
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...every day, every day, of the year!


20 posted on 02/22/2013 3:07:17 PM PST by null and void (Gun confiscation enables tyranny. Don't enable tyranny.)
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