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Tue Jan 6, 2015, 07:22 PM Jan 2015

Ken Ham's faith is too weak to survive without government help.

That is basically what he is saying.

Ken Ham Demands Taxpayers Pay For 'One Of The Greatest Evangelist Outreaches Of Our Day'

Submitted by Miranda Blue on Tuesday, 1/6/2015 4:31 pm

Ken Ham of Answers in Genesis was a guest on American Family Radio today, where he discussed with Tim Wildmon his new project building a Noah’s Ark theme park in Kentucky. Ham insisted that the theme park, a complement to Ham's Creation Museum, has come under attack from “intolerant” liberals who want to deny it taxpayer funding. Last month, Kentucky’s tourism board announced that the Noah’s Ark park wouldn’t be eligible for an $18 million tourism tax break because Answers In Genesis intends to use the site to proseletize and refuses to promise not to discriminate based on religion in its hiring. The board noted that “[s]tate tourism tax incentives cannot be used to fund religious indoctrination or otherwise be used to advance religion," but Ham cried persecution, complaining that Kentucky had violated his “fundamental rights” by witholding the tax break. In the American Family Radio interview, Ham continued to portray himself as the victim of “intolerant” liberals (like Bill Nye) while also inadvertently bolstering the tourism board’s case by announcing that the Noah’s Ark park will be “one of the greatest evangelist outreaches of our day, of our period in history.”

- See more at: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/ken-ham-demands-taxpayers-pay-one-greatest-evangelist-outreaches-our-day#sthash.AODnjzzu.dpuf

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Ken Ham's faith is too weak to survive without government help. (Original Post) Archae Jan 2015 OP
God should really step in edhopper Jan 2015 #1
too bad the .... hadrons Jan 2015 #2
Hah malokvale77 Jan 2015 #3

hadrons

(4,170 posts)
2. too bad the ....
Tue Jan 6, 2015, 09:01 PM
Jan 2015

Kentucky’s tourism board couldn't serve as the Senators of Kentucky instead of the two fools currently in those seats.

malokvale77

(4,879 posts)
3. Hah
Wed Jan 7, 2015, 02:35 AM
Jan 2015

¨but Ham cried persecution, complaining that Kentucky had violated his “fundamental rights” by witholding the tax break.¨

I´ve been denied every tax break known to man just because I´m poor.

Screw that asshole and the Noah´s Ark he sailed in on.

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