Texas Teacher Claims Fingerprinting Is ‘Mark of the Beast’
November 6th, 2009
A 22-year veteran kindergarten teacher in the Texas Bible Belt could lose her job for refusing, on religious grounds, to give fingerprints under a state law requiring them.
The evangelical Christian, Pam McLaurin, is fighting a looming suspension, claiming that fingerprinting amounts to the “Mark of the Beast,” and hence is a violation of her First Amendment right to practice her religion. Her case is similar to a lawsuit by a group of Michigan farmers, some of them Amish, challenging rules requiring the tagging of livestock with RFID chips, saying the devices are also the devil’s mark.
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1. kev | November 6th, 2009 at 5:29 pm
The same exemptions are already in place in Virginia for DL purposes- ridiculous. We are retarded. The things we tolerate and the things we get in an uproar about. We are truly our own worst enemies.
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