Pastafarian Woman Wins Fight To Wear Spaghetti Strainer In Driver’s License Photo

So she filed an administrative appeal and was scheduled to attend an appeal in October about the matter, but it was postponed and the RMV has made a decision to let her wear the spaghetti strainer in her photo.

The registry had denied Miller’s request to wear a spaghetti strainer, citing its regulation that “A hat or other head cover is not acceptable, but if worn for medical or religious reasons, it may be allowed if it does not hide any facial features”.

A woman in MA who identifies herself as a follower of a religion that teaches the possibility of an airborne “spaghetti monster” having created the universe, Pastafarianism, has won the right to wear a colander on her head in her state issued driver’s license photo.

Lindsay Miller, from MA, USA, was originally told by the MA Registry of Motor Vehicles (RMV) that she would not be able to wear the drainer on her head.

If people were allowed to wear their religious garments in photos for government ID’s, this needed to extend to them as well according to David Noise of the Appignani Humanist Legal Center.

Lindsay Miller says that she is a “Pastafarian” and a member of the church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster which is called a parody religion by a few critics. But after the American Humanist Association intervened the RMV has reversed this stance recently. Miller and her lawyers claimed discrimination against the Pastafarian religion because it is not as widely known or accepted as other religions.

“The First Amendment applies to every person and every religion, so I was dismayed to hear that Lindsay had been ridiculed for simply seeking the same freedoms and protections afforded to people who belong to more traditional or theistic religions”, said Miller’s attorney, Patty DeJuneas, in a statement.