Student Punished For Spaghetti Beliefs
Student punished for spaghetti beliefs
A student has been suspended from school in America for coming to class dressed as a pirate.
But the disciplinary action has provoked controversy – because the student says that the ban violates his rights, as the pirate costume is part of his religion.
Bryan Killian says that he follows the Pastafarian religion, and that as a crucial part of his faith, he must wear ‘full pirate regalia’ as prescribed in the holy texts of Pastafarianism.
The school, however, say that his pirate garb was disruptive.
Pastafarians follow the Flying Spaghetti Monster (pictured), and believe that the world was created by the touch of his noodly appendage. Furthermore, they acknowledge pirates as being ‘absolute divine beings’, and stress that the worldwide decline in the number of pirates has directly led to global warming.
Tuesday April 3rd, 2007 @ 6:37am
Be a better than the good site it is if you could publish the links to your quotes or somewhere else for more info, then your site would be more of link in the internet, rather than an entertaining dead end.
http://www.venganza.org was the original site of Followers of the Flying Spaghetti Monster or Pastafarians as they call themselves. It’s not loading for me atm. So not very helpful. Here is something related, further research into Intelligent Design by Pastafarians.
http://www.fred.net/tds/noodles/noodle.html
Thursday July 5th, 2007 @ 9:05pm
All I wore was a pirate hat(religious head coverings are specifically protected), and when I told a teacher it was part of my religion, showed her the sentence in the student handbook protecting my head covering, and told her of Pastafarianism, she replied with “That’s not a real religion, that’s not your real religion; if I got your parents in here they would argue that.” I explained to her that my parents don’t have any control of my beliefs, and she made me take it off anyway; even after I named several of my Jewish friends wearing yamaka’s at the time.
Sunday August 5th, 2007 @ 7:31pm
Dress codes do protect clothing for valid religions. Pastafarianism, is probably not legally recognized as a religion. It is simply something for sarcastic atheists.
Monday August 6th, 2007 @ 12:10am
Why shouldn’t it be recognized?
Is the basis of a religion how much someone believes in it’s nonsense? I bet you there’s a ton of hardcore believers in the looney-bin, should we recognize their ‘religions’?
There should be no qualifications as to what is a ‘real’ religion and what is not, since the bias will always be in that of the judging person’s own beliefs.
Saturday August 11th, 2007 @ 10:28am
So tell me John K, what is a valid religion in your divine wisdom??
Thursday August 16th, 2007 @ 3:17am
I think I read somewhere that Pastafrianism IS recognized as a ‘real’ Religion in the US, just like Jedi. Unfortunately I don’t remember where I read this (an don’t know where to look something like this up).
Tuesday August 21st, 2007 @ 2:00pm
Of course it’s a real religion. I’m a Pastafarian, and quite open about it. This in spite of living in a backwards, parochial, ignorant community of Christian Fundamentalists. Do you think I’d set myself up for all the abuse I get if this were just a joke? Certainly not. The proof of the reality of His Sauciness is that I’m willing to suffer the scorn of the Spagnostics for Him.
Monday August 27th, 2007 @ 6:27pm
I personally agree with the school in this case. Schools have broad powers to restrict student expression if that expression is disruptive. Although I think this power is often abused, this is a legitimate use of power.
Monday August 27th, 2007 @ 7:13pm
I guess the constitution doesn’t apply to students?
Friday January 15th, 2016 @ 3:02pm
sad but true
Monday September 24th, 2007 @ 6:31pm
Pfft. In this day and age, the constitution isn’t worth the paper it’s printed on. Their ain’t no justice; the constitution is just a bunch of words now, as sad as that may seem.