The group seeking to build a Noah's Ark theme park in Kentucky said Tuesday it will file a federal discrimination lawsuit against the state for rejecting its application for tax incentives to help finance the park.
Tourism officials in December denied tax incentives worth roughly $18 million for the Ark Encounter — a biblical theme park to include a 510-foot-long wooden ship — over concerns that it had evolved from a tourist attraction to an effort to advance a religion and that developers planned to discriminate in hiring based on religion.
Answers in Genesis, the group behind the plan, said in a statement that the decision "by Kentucky officials, including Gov. Steve Beshear, violates federal and state law" and amounted to discrimination. A lawyer for the group said it plans to file the suit in U.S. District Court on Thursday.
As we have reported earlier Answers in Genesis would have easily received the tax incentives they needed had they only agreed not to make potential workers swear they were Christians before being allowed to work on the project.
I know, what an unreasonable thing to require. Right?
So now instead of simply realizing that they were living in the 21st Century, where that shit don;t fly, this group has decided to claim THEY are being religiously discriminated against and filed suit.
Well this ought to be fun to watch.
I nominate Ken Ham for chairman of the Irony Board.
ReplyDeleteIt just goes to show how narrow minded, bigoted, and ignorant Christians can be, particularly those in the far right. They're just waiting their money on this and know it can't be built unless they can get some state money from the taxpayers to finance they're ridiculous dream.
ReplyDeleteYeah, this one is really classic.
ReplyDeleteI thought that rill 'Murican Christians were self sufficient, independent, conservatives that don't need to Gummint, stand on their own, and didn't want handouts, food stamps, or welfare!
So these folks admit they are asking for welfare from the state, and are essentially missionaries, who have just one purpose, and that's to spread their religious belief in creationism.
And they don't want to damn athiests, Buddhists, Hindus, or other unsaved trash working for them that would pollute their environment,
Want their cake and eat it too, don't they?
Can't have it both ways hypocrite beggars!
After Hobby Lobby, anything is possible
ReplyDeleteYou know darned good and well that damned fool Hamm is responsible for this since he is incapable of seeing any viewpoint except his own.
ReplyDeleteI would be willing to bet he will refuse to accept the findings of ANY Federal court, up to and including SCOTUS.
I know. I know. He can't really try to go any further than SCOTUS, but anyone want to bet he will try to influence his Representative in the US House to write an amendment to the Constitution?
And when that fails, he will then claim he owes nothing to his debtors because his country is biased! (BTW, whatever happened to "Neither a borrower nor a lender be"? Can you say "typical salad bar xtian"?)
Either that or he will tell the tax board he won't discriminate and do it anyway once he has the tax breaks.
And here I thought it was the Mor(m)ons who had lying for jesus as part of their believe structure.
Thing looks like a parking structure.
ReplyDeleteDo these religious freaks in Kentucky know how they look to the rest of the nation? What friggin' idiots!
ReplyDeleteThey are failing in their Christian faiths across the nation and it scares the hell out of them. It might help if they stopped ramming their beliefs down our throats! Turns me off entirely!
It looks like a 'tourist trap' - building it to be a big money maker for 'christians'?
ReplyDeleteI don't understand these cranky knotheads. I thought they were supposed to take every opportunity to evangelize and spread the Good Word.
ReplyDeleteYou would think they would like the opportunity to employ people of other faiths or no faith, in order that they might see the joy to be found in being a follower of Jesus.
If they spend all day with like-minded people only, it seems to me that they are throwing away many opportunities to bring others to Jesus.
I hope Answers in Genesis spends money on the fruitless lawsuit that they could have spent advancing their project, thus hopefully dooming it to bankruptcy. Nothing like being blinded by faith...
ReplyDeleteSHOWBOATING:
ReplyDelete1. To have a visibly exaggerated idea of ones own skills, talents, or abilities.
2. To exhibit a grotesque amount of undue and unfounded pride for a skill or ability which is actually mediocre.
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1. A riverboat equipped with a theater, especially one that stops at towns along the river and offers performances.
2. One who seeks attention by ostentatious behavior; a showoff.
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Actors traveled to America from England and theatre venues as well as touring companies were developed. In 1816, Noah Ludlow purchased a keelboat for $200 and named it >>>Ludlow's Noah's Ark.<<< Ludlow and 11 associates climbed aboard and traveled down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers stopping to perform whenever they could.
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That last quotation from Wikipedia about an earlier Ark is simply too precious not to share, and they also provide examples of showboating in sports gone terribly wrong. The featured image also shows a showboat run aground. ;^)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Showboat