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Archae

(46,335 posts)
Thu Feb 5, 2015, 05:43 PM Feb 2015

Ken Ham is being persecuted!

Well, since he won't play by "da rulz" so he won't get tax breaks, he thinks so...

Ken Ham: Government Persecuting Us By Not Providing Taxpayer Funding To Creationist Theme Park

Submitted by Brian Tashman on Thursday, 2/5/2015 3:30 pm

Creationist leader Ken Ham is incensed that the state of Kentucky is supposedly abridging his organization’s “fundamental rights” by declining to provide around $18 million in tax incentives to his Noah’s Ark theme park. The park is a planned addition to Ham’s Creation Museum and is intended to be, according to Ham, “one of the greatest evangelist outreaches of our day.” Since Ham’s group plans to discriminate on the basis of religion in its hiring practices, it is no surprise that it won’t get public funds. But Ham claims that he has a “right” to receive taxpayer money and has filed a lawsuit against Kentucky, insisting that his organization, Answers in Genesis, is the real victim of discrimination. He took his case to “Washington Watch” yesterday, where he told host Tony Perkins that Kentucky’s decision somehow violates his organization's right to the freedom of speech: “Anyone who wants to have freedom of speech in this nation, freedom of religion, free exercise of religion, needs to stand with us as we do this because that is what we are standing for.”

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Warpy

(111,273 posts)
1. Oh, dear, the poor man simply can't catch a break
Thu Feb 5, 2015, 05:46 PM
Feb 2015

His funding has gone bye bye, mean old atheists have come to the Creation Museum to laugh at Jebus on the dinosaur, and even church every Sunday Christians are starting to look at him real funny. Poor thing!

All he's wanted to do is bully the rest of us into giving lip service to his brand of religion. How can we be so cruel?

 

hifiguy

(33,688 posts)
2. Hey, Ken, when you can point out the clause in the Constitution
Thu Feb 5, 2015, 06:03 PM
Feb 2015

and its amendments establishing the right of a religulous moron to tax breaks get back to me, will ya?

meow2u3

(24,764 posts)
3. Freedom of religion is a 1st Amendment right
Thu Feb 5, 2015, 07:39 PM
Feb 2015

But there is no 1st Amendment right to demand a license to discriminate at taxpayer expense. Got it, Hammie?

Bandit

(21,475 posts)
4. I don't know about first amendment right but the Hobby Lobby case gives the right to
Thu Feb 5, 2015, 07:46 PM
Feb 2015

discriminate at tax payer expense.

dilby

(2,273 posts)
5. If God wants a Noah's Ark theme park, He will provide.
Thu Feb 5, 2015, 07:49 PM
Feb 2015

Not the tax payers, so maybe Mr. Ham should get on his knees and start praying.

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