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Religious Objection
There are two states(Kentucky & Illinois) that will let you use a religious objection in order not to give them your social security number when applying for a drivers license. Does anybody know what exactly what would qualify as a religious objection to those two states?
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When the government started assigning SSNs, there was an uproar among some people because they believed it had something to do with The Mark of the Beast (from The Book of Revelations in the Christian Bible) and that the end times were upon us. Or something like that.
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You must be a member of a religion or culture that does not condone social security numbers or other forms of registration. If you were an ethnic Tzigani (Gypsy), for example, chances are you wouldn't even have a Social Security number. A few Christian fundamentalist sects object to registration, and I think there is one Orthodox Jewish community that may oppose registration in principle, although I think that community is located in New York and its members do vote. Religious organizations are typically registered as charities, so you would have to locate an organized, registered religion wherein it's common for members to refuse to get SSNs.
You would need to actually convert to that religion and obtain some kind of certificate or proof of membership from the priest, priestess, or other authority. This usually means familiarizing yourself with the religion and believing in it-- most priests and other religious people can tell the difference between a genuine conversion and a simple desire to exploit membership in the religion for some other purpose. Not all religions permit outsiders to become members: you would have difficulty breaking into the Amish community, for example... although if you were Amish, you wouldn't need a driver's license to begin with.
Founding an anti-registration religion yourself would be a huge expenditure of time and effort; you would have to have other members of the religion besides yourself, and there is a lot of paperwork involved in getting the 501(c)3 exemption.
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