Silver Pirate Things
Unity over at the Ministry of Truth has an article about how European Law impacts on the Silver Ring Thing court case thing involving Lydia Playfoot thing. Unity has made something of a study of the case in fact.
If I read article 9 of the 1950 European Convention on Human Rights correctly, my daughter can go to school in full pirate regalia, despite the fact that her school has a fairly strict dress code, because she is (or claims to be) a worshipper of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. FSM's worshippers are exhorted to wear this regalia because it will reduce global warming (of course).
Article 9 protects the right of a person to manifest their religion or belief in worship, teaching, practice and observance.
Dressing like a pirate is in fact an act of worship, possibly an example to others (teaching), definitely a religious practice (since it dates from the religions foundation), and an observance. Consequently this is protected by the full force of European law.
All of which goes to show how ridiculous this religious stuff is.
UPDATE: She lost, of course.
If I read article 9 of the 1950 European Convention on Human Rights correctly, my daughter can go to school in full pirate regalia, despite the fact that her school has a fairly strict dress code, because she is (or claims to be) a worshipper of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. FSM's worshippers are exhorted to wear this regalia because it will reduce global warming (of course).
Article 9 protects the right of a person to manifest their religion or belief in worship, teaching, practice and observance.
Dressing like a pirate is in fact an act of worship, possibly an example to others (teaching), definitely a religious practice (since it dates from the religions foundation), and an observance. Consequently this is protected by the full force of European law.
All of which goes to show how ridiculous this religious stuff is.
UPDATE: She lost, of course.
posted by Sacerdoteuk at 9:48 am
1 Comments:
Thanks for introducing me to the FSM. That wasted a whole evening. But I did discover that christians with little or no sense of humour like to rant at the FSM with either "you will rot in hell" or "we will be praying for your soul". Sorry, forgot to mention the long bible quotes as well. So Steve, if you carry on like this christians will start praying for you, you have been warned.
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