[Chemist_Geek]

I don't really care why she wants to veil, just like I don't really care why a communicant wants to eat flesh and drink blood. It's a question of principle -- they have a right to Free Exercise in their religion, and I certainly see no harm in letting this woman go around veiled. I can appreciate that this might intimidate or frighten some American men, but their infantile social development should not dictate law.

Point of information: "letting this woman go around veiled" is not the issue. The issue is her refusal to abide by Florida's statutory requirements for issuance of a driver's license.

The argument that wearing that full veil is a religious requirement is fallacious; many Islamic women wear a headscarf which only exposes from the eyebrows to the chin. That would be most likely be suitable for both Florida law and Islamic belief.

Unless, of course, she just wants to cause trouble. In that case, send her to Gitmo.

[Don Joe]

"Point of information: 'letting this woman go around veiled' is not the issue. The issue is her refusal to abide by Florida's statutory requirements for issuance of a driver's license.

"The argument that wearing that full veil is a religious requirement is fallacious; many Islamic women wear a headscarf which only exposes from the eyebrows to the chin. That would be most likely be suitable for both Florida law and Islamic belief."

Bingo. If this flies, the next step could easily be a requirement that they wear gloves, and theaten lawsuits if any "infidel" demands that they remove them for fingerprinting when applying for security clearance, when arrested, and so forth.

There's got to be a reason (or a slew of reasons) that they're striving so hard to set a precedent with this.