Teacher Claims Fingerprinting Is ‘Mark of the Beast’

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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.