Posted on 08/11/2008 11:40:28 AM PDT by BGHater
West Virginia started Friday keeping driver's license photos out of a computer database for members of a small religious group who believe digital storage is a "mark of the beast" that evokes biblical prophecy.
State Division of Motor Vehicles Commissioner Joseph Cicchirillo said the group of about 50 or 60 Christians, who are not affiliated with a particular church, contacted the agency two or three years ago to object to their pictures "being on a database that can be exchanged throughout the world or hacked into."
One of the group members is Phil Hudok, who made headlines in 1999 when he was fired as a Randolph County school teacher for refusing to require his students to wear bar-coded identification badges. Hudok was later reinstated after a circuit judge said the school board had made no attempt to accommodate his religious beliefs.
Hudok and other members of his group have said bar codes and digital storage of photos are a way of numbering people, which they liken to a warning in the Bible's book of Revelation about a "mark of the beast" indicating the arrival of the Antichrist.
To accommodate their beliefs, state officials decided to issue driver's licenses to the group members that are exactly like other West Virginia licenses except that the individual photos will be removed from the computer immediately after they are taken by a digital camera.
Instead of being stored digitally, an 8-by-11-inch hard copy of each picture will be printed out and kept in a file. All other information, including birth dates and driving records, will be in the computer system, Cicchirillo said.
Without this accommodation, group members wouldn't get their driver's licenses, which the commissioner said would hamper their ability to get everyday services from insurance coverage to check cashing.
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Nut Jobs.
Believers are being portrayed as nut jobs...tough, we are still growing and believing.
If you want your car to be “passed over” by the destroying angel , you must remove both license plates .
Hopefully theses drivers licenses are clearly marked as being invalid as identification for boarding aircraft.
Every reputable survey of religion in America shows that the nonreligious are the fastest growing segment of the American population. Were it not for immigration, that figure would likely be higher.
I would love to be able to assign the License Plate numbers to these people.
Good teaching
NONSENSE
You allow this then you have to start making all sorts of exceptions for the Islamofacists and then any nut bag that belives aliens are tracking them etc.....
There are 35,152 combinations of three alphabetical characters followed by 666 or 666 followed by three alphabetical characters.
Believers are being portrayed as nut jobs...tough, we are still growing and believing.
Believers of what?
Growing? 50 or 60 people out of several billion?
Okay so these kooks don;t have a picture stored after getting a license. What happens when they are arrest for a crime? Go through a traffic control staion where it takes photos? Go through an airport security system or a dozen other daily places and activities?
“fear the Beast”
I thought we were finished with articles about Hillary.......
Well I guess the screw balls will eventually die of starvation, Now isn't that just sweet.
Under the “equal protection” clauses probably in the VA State (or is it commonwealth) Constitution, VA can not do that for some and not make it available to all. And that’s what makes it interesting to me.
Some years ago we discovered that Quakers in Indiana are exempt from applying for marriage licenses. Quakers (actually, Society of Friends)are specifically named in the law. An Indiana Circuit Court judge told me in the Clerk’s office one day that that would actually mean ANYONE could cite that law, and because of the “equal protection” clause in the IN State Con., ANYONE who states a religious objection would be exempt.
I have no doubt that this is true and that the numbers of unbelievers will continue to grow.
Matthew 7:13 " "Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it."
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