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NeoGreen

(4,033 posts)
Tue Dec 15, 2015, 08:47 AM Dec 2015

Church of Flying Spaghetti Monster approved to perform marriages...

http://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/weddings/75107725/church-of-flying-spaghetti-monster-approved-to-perform-marriages

Church of Flying Spaghetti Monster approved to perform marriages

They wear colanders on their heads and describe their religion as "pastafarianism".

Now the adherents of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster have been approved to perform marriage ceremonies in New Zealand.

The application from the church was approved by the registrar-general of births, deaths and marriages and listed in the New Zealand Gazette.



https://gazette.govt.nz/notice/id/2015-go7246

Marriage (Approval of Organisations) Notice No. 22

Pursuant to the Marriage Act 1955, the Registrar-General of Marriages hereby gives notice as follows.

N o t i c e

1. This notice may be cited as the Marriage (Approval of Organisations) Notice No. 22.

2. The organisation specified in the Schedule hereto is hereby declared to be an approved organisation for the purpose of the Marriage Act 1955.

Schedule

Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.

Dated at Wellington this 10th day of December 2015.

JEFF MONTGOMERY, Registrar-General.




We've been "Gazetted"!!!

Go Kiwis!

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Church of Flying Spaghetti Monster approved to perform marriages... (Original Post) NeoGreen Dec 2015 OP
This is proof Pastafarianism has its place in the 'Interfaith' group Yorktown Dec 2015 #1
I tried to find one of those "Coexist" logos with the FSM. Instead I found this: PassingFair Dec 2015 #2
Live Fast, Die Al Dente? Yorktown Dec 2015 #3
 

Yorktown

(2,884 posts)
1. This is proof Pastafarianism has its place in the 'Interfaith' group
Tue Dec 15, 2015, 07:52 PM
Dec 2015

Now that our blessed religion, Pastafarianism, is 100% legit, performing the holy bonds of noodly matrimony, what else is there that distances it form other religions?

Outside of the difference in time our respective religions have existed?

With this decision about marriages, the only thing that keeps 'Interfaith' closed to our Holy Religion is bronze age religions privilege.

 

Yorktown

(2,884 posts)
3. Live Fast, Die Al Dente?
Wed Dec 16, 2015, 07:23 PM
Dec 2015

Is that the motto of James Dente, the hero of 'Rebel Without a Colander'?


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