Getting a photo ID while sporting a colander has become an aspirational milestone for some members of The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
Cincinnati EnquirerCINCINNATI – Ohio officials refused to let a man wear his religion's"holy headgear" in his driver's license photo. But he thought it shouldn't have been a problem.called the local Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles office ahead of time and was told he would be fine. But when he showed up at the deputy registrar in Green Township last year, he was given funny looks and turned away by a manager.
Steve Moser, pictured, Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2019, at his home in Green Township. Moser tried to take his driver’s license photo with a colander on top of his head and was denied last year. He says he’s a member of the Cincinnati Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster and the state BMV rules violate his First Amendment rights.The Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles prohibits hats, scarves and other head coverings in license and ID photos.
In response, an attorney with the bureau wrote that the association provided no proof that the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster is a"recognized religion" as opposed to a secular argument or parody religion. And if it were a religion, there's no evidence Pastafarians regularly don colanders during job interviews, at work or during other tasks in public.
It's satire and parody, but it's also something much more serious to many believers: a response against what they see as erosion of the separation between church and state. Moser founded the Cincinnati Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster and filed state paperwork to register it as a nonprofit. He became licensed by the secretary of state to solemnize marriages as a church"ministeroni."
Judge John Gerard, in ruling against a prisoner's request to practice Pastafarianism, called the church a “satirical rejoinder to a certain strain of religious argument" and its gospel a work of satire.
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