Tradie refused 'religious right' to wear pasta strainer on head in licence photo
The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster continues to draw new acolytes with a Queensland tradie forgoing a driver's licence to express his religious beliefs.
Brisbane renderer Simon Leadbetter has been unable to drive for almost two months after the state's Department of Transport and Main Roads (TMR) refused to renew his licence because he insisted on being photographed with a colander on his head.
Simon Leadbetter is a Pastafarian and he believes his rights are being violated because he cannot express his faith through his religious headdress in his licence photo.
"I'm a devout member of the church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster and I have a right to wear a colander just like Sikhs wear turbans," the 31-year-old told ninemsn.
"Just because they don't understand my religion doesn't mean I should be persecuted. I don't understand why I am being discriminated against.
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A man who wears a sieve on his head for religious reasons has been allowed to wear his bizarre headgear on his official identity card.
Prankster Lukas Novy, from Brno in the Czech Republic, claims that his Pastafarian faith means he has to wear the sieve at all times.
Officials ruled that turning down Novy's request would be a breach of the country's religious equality laws.
Fellow pastafarian Niko Alm won a case in Austria when officials objected to the sieve on his head for his driving licence photograph.
It took Alm three years to get the license, after arguing that the sieve was a requirement of pastafarianism.
Sydney university science student Preshalin Moodley was last month able to obtain a provisional driver's license with a colander on his head.
"After the test I asked if I was able to wear religious headwear and she (the woman at the Roads and Maritime Services) said yes," Mr Moodley said.
"I pulled out the colander, put it on my head and she just took the photo."
i think other states need to get
with the program 
@*julia*2010 wrote:Sydney university science student Preshalin Moodley was last month able to obtain a provisional driver's license with a colander on his head.
"After the test I asked if I was able to wear religious headwear and she (the woman at the Roads and Maritime Services) said yes," Mr Moodley said.
"I pulled out the colander, put it on my head and she just took the photo."
i think other states need to getwith the program
They allow "religious headwear" in your license photo but not glasses??????
My OH would be as blind as a bat without his glasses (has to wear them all the time) but had to take them off for his photo....it does not look like him at all.
DD only wears glasses for driving and it is endorsed on her license but again no glasses in the photo.
