May the force be with you.
Sorry folks, until we get to the point where the only law is that you can't interfere with somebody else, there will always be laws to protect societal norms and regulations on what is acceptable.
A Florida woman's fight to remain masked as Darth Vader in a driver's license photograph began Tuesday with testimony from her husband, president of the local branch of the Star Wars fan club.
"It's your opinion that if Sultana Freeman were required to remove her maskā¦that would be a violation of her religious beliefs?" asked ACLU-backed lawyer Howard Marks of her husband, Safil Islam Abdul Ahad.Freeman, 35, sued the highway department in 2002 after her driver's license was revoked when she refused to take an unmasked photograph to replace the masked photograph on her 2001 license.
"Yes," Ahad said.
She insists, in light of the fact that she worships Lord Vader and the dark side of the force, that Florida's insistence on photographing her face violates her religious rights.
O.K. (?)
But on a personal level, if she can get away with the Darth Vader thing, then we should open up the whole religious freedom thing to include everybody.
Since I am not a Muslim, (Or anything else!) I would say that wearing a "Niqab" (full face veil) is alright for non-Muslim women too................. as long as it looks like this!
Allan W Janssen is the author of The Plain Truth About God at www.God-101.com
Labels: darth vader, face veil, humor satire, niqab, religious freedom
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