Creationist group sues Kentucky over $18 million in tax rebates for Noah’s Ark theme park

[unhappycamper]

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/02/creationist-group-sues-kentucky-over-18-million-in-tax-rebates-for-noahs-ark-theme-park/



Answers in Genesis president Ken Ham appears in a YouTube video

Creationist group sues Kentucky over $18 million in tax rebates for Noah’s Ark theme park
Eric W. Dolan
03 Feb 2015 at 11:39 ET

The creationist ministry Answers in Genesis announced Tuesday that it would file a lawsuit against the state of Kentucky over tax rebate benefits for its Noah’s Ark-based theme park.

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Lawyer Mike Johnson, who also appeared in the video, agreed. “Religious groups, ideas, and organizations can’t be treated with hostility by the government, and in effect that’s what we have here,” he said.

In December, Kentucky withdrew tax rebates for the Ark Encounter park in Williamston, Kentucky, that were potentially worth more than $18 million.

Kentucky Tourism, Arts and Heritage Cabinet Secretary Bob Stewart said the project had transformed from a tourist attraction to an “extension of AIG’s ministry.” Answers in Genesis had refused to pledge not to discriminate against non-Christians in hiring.

[DetlefK]

1. Reminder: If you don't bow to their whims, you are oppressing them.

[A Little Weird]

2. Tax breaks should never have been offered in the first place

I hope this idiotic venture goes bankrupt.

[Fred Sanders]

3. The insanity is all about the Constitution being "for Christians only", the delusion rests on that.

The Sharia law lovers are about two degrees of separation from ISIS.

[Hoppy]

4. Wait 'till the Big Guy gets ahold of Bob Stewart's heathen ass.

Yes, Sweetheart, its scarcasm.

[woodsprite]

5. Sounds like they don't have a leg or Bible to stand on.

"Kentucky Tourism, Arts and Heritage Cabinet Secretary Bob Stewart said the project had transformed from a tourist attraction to an “extension of AIG’s ministry.” Answers in Genesis had refused to pledge not to discriminate against non-Christians in hiring."

[htuttle]

6. For a moment, I thought they were talking about the waterpark in the Dells

https://www.noahsarkwaterpark.com/

[leftofcool]

7. Take your Bible thumping theme park and move it to Kansas