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Title    Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster Loses Bid for Legal Recognition as Incorporated Entity
Date    Saturday June 19 2021, @04:01PM
Author    mrpg
Topic   
from the Pastafarianism-molto-al-dente dept.
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=21/06/19/0417250

gawdonblue writes:

The South Australian Civil and Administrative Tribunal (SACAT) failed to be Touched by His Noodly Appendage in a decision on Adelaide woman Tanya Watkins' claim that FSM was formed for a "religious, educational, charitable or benevolent purpose".

The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster (FSM) remains in the realms of satire in central Australia after an appeal for formal recognition was rejected by a South Australian legal authority on the grounds that it is a "sham" and a "hoax".

[...] In the ruling, Ms McEvoy noted that while various "Pastafarian texts" are set out in traditional religious forms, they "contain some surprising articulations", such as references to the books of the Bible as the "Old Testicle" and "New Testicle".

Story from the ABC: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-19/sa-church-of-the-flying-spaghetti-monster-proposal-rejected/100228038

Earlier ABC stories tell about how New Zealand is more accepting than Australians of our colander-headed brethren and sistren:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-12-18/nz-church-of-the-flying-spaghetti-monster-gets-recognition/7039796

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-04-16/noodly-knot-tied-in-first-legal-marriage-of-pastafarians/7332360


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