Victory for the Flying Spaghetti Monster

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A college student in Lubbock, Texas, says he is the first American allowed to wear a pasta strainer on his head for a government-issued ID photo by claiming that he was was a member of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.

The satirical 'religion' was originally cited in a 2005 letter opposing the teaching of intelligent design in Kansas public schools. Writer Bobby Henderson used the preposterous Flying Spaghetti Monster deity to illustrate his point that government should not seek to validate or side with any one religion.

Texas Tech University student Eddie Castillo hoped to take the joke even farther by claiming he should be allowed to wear a spaghetti strainer on his head for his state ID picture because he is a 'Pastafarian' - a follower of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.