Pastafarian - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Thu, 04 Nov 2021 08:23:50 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg Pastafarian - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Pastafarians still strain for recognition https://cathnews.co.nz/2021/11/04/pastafarians-not-joking/ Thu, 04 Nov 2021 08:23:50 +0000 https://cathnews.co.nz/?p=142075 Sometime next year, the European court of human rights will decide on the case of a Dutch woman who feels unfairly treated because her country's highest court has told her she cannot wear a plastic colander on her head for her ID photo. Pastafarians, who are members of The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster's believers Read more

Pastafarians still strain for recognition... Read more]]> Sometime next year, the European court of human rights will decide on the case of a Dutch woman who feels unfairly treated because her country's highest court has told her she cannot wear a plastic colander on her head for her ID photo.

Pastafarians, who are members of The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster's believers wear colanders on their heads in homage to their deity. Read more

Pastafarians still strain for recognition]]> 142075 Saying 'I do' with a 'noodle of love': Pastafarians tie the knot in Wellington https://cathnews.co.nz/2018/07/16/pastafarians-marriage/ Mon, 16 Jul 2018 07:54:29 +0000 https://cathnews.co.nz/?p=109367 A gay toy sheep wearing a colander was perched on the celebrant's head, and the guests were dressed as pirates. When Pastafarians marry as they did at Worser Bay in Wellington on Sunday - sealing the deal with the "noodle of love" - things are a little different. Continue reading

Saying ‘I do' with a ‘noodle of love': Pastafarians tie the knot in Wellington... Read more]]> A gay toy sheep wearing a colander was perched on the celebrant's head, and the guests were dressed as pirates.

When Pastafarians marry as they did at Worser Bay in Wellington on Sunday - sealing the deal with the "noodle of love" - things are a little different. Continue reading

Saying ‘I do' with a ‘noodle of love': Pastafarians tie the knot in Wellington]]> 109367 It's lawful to wear a colander on your head https://cathnews.co.nz/2015/11/27/you-are-allowed-to-wear-a-colander-on-your-head/ Thu, 26 Nov 2015 16:20:59 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=79264 A woman in the US has won the right to wear a colander on her head in her driving licence photo. The Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles had previously forbidden Lindsay Miller from sporting the unconventional headgear, worn by followers of the satirical Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, or 'Pastafarians'. However, the decision was Read more

It's lawful to wear a colander on your head... Read more]]> A woman in the US has won the right to wear a colander on her head in her driving licence photo.

The Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles had previously forbidden Lindsay Miller from sporting the unconventional headgear, worn by followers of the satirical Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, or 'Pastafarians'.

However, the decision was overturned after Miller launched an appeal with the assistance of the Secular Legal Society. Read more

It's lawful to wear a colander on your head]]> 79264 'Pastafarian' allowed head covering https://cathnews.co.nz/2011/07/19/pastafarian-allowed-head-covering/ Mon, 18 Jul 2011 19:00:54 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=7616 Niko Alm wanted to test an Austrian law saying that head coverings would only be allowed in official documents for religious reasons. So the tongue-in-cheek atheist applied for a new driver's licence in his country with a photo of himself wearing a pasta strainer as headgear. Alm said he was a "pastafarian" and that the Read more

‘Pastafarian' allowed head covering... Read more]]> Niko Alm wanted to test an Austrian law saying that head coverings would only be allowed in official documents for religious reasons.

So the tongue-in-cheek atheist applied for a new driver's licence in his country with a photo of himself wearing a pasta strainer as headgear.

Alm said he was a "pastafarian" and that the headpiece was required by his religion.

The application process took three years, but Alm said overnight (NZ time) that he's now got his new licence.

Police officials in the mostly Catholic country did not sound amused. They said religion was never an issue in Alm's case, and that he succeeded because he fulfilled the only criterion required: leaving his face fully visible in the photo.

Niki Alm

SPAGHETTI DEVOTEE: Niko Alm's driving licence features a photo of him wearing a pasta strainer

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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