W.Va. offers licenses for those who fear 'beast'

["Richard M. Smith" <rms () computerbytesman com>]

W.Va. offers licenses for those who fear 'beast'

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hkL-0izYzjwik4ojNmD0Q5MWaWgQD92E7RIG0

 

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - West Virginia started Friday keeping driver's

license photos out of a computer database for members of a small

religious group who believe digital storage is a "mark of the beast"

that evokes biblical prophecy.

 

State Division of Motor Vehicles Commissioner Joseph Cicchirillo said

the group of about 50 or 60 Christians, who are not affiliated with a

particular church, contacted the agency two or three years ago to object

to their pictures "being on a database that can be exchanged throughout

the world or hacked into."

 

One of the group members is Phil Hudok, who made headlines in 1999 when

he was fired as a Randolph County school teacher for refusing to require

his students to wear bar-coded identification badges. Hudok was later

reinstated after a circuit judge said the school board had made no

attempt to accommodate his religious beliefs.

 

Hudok and other members of his group have said bar codes and digital

storage of photos are a way of numbering people, which they liken to a

warning in the Bible's book of Revelation about a "mark of the beast"

indicating the arrival of the Antichrist.

 

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