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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 organizations fundamental rights by declining to provide around $18 million in tax incentives to his Noahs Ark theme park. The park is a planned addition to Hams Creation Museum and is intended to be, according to Ham, one of the greatest evangelist outreaches of our day. Since Hams group plans to discriminate on the basis of religion in its hiring practices, it is no surprise that it wont 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 Kentuckys 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)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)and its amendments establishing the right of a religulous moron to tax breaks get back to me, will ya?
meow2u3
(24,764 posts)But there is no 1st Amendment right to demand a license to discriminate at taxpayer expense. Got it, Hammie?
Bandit
(21,475 posts)discriminate at tax payer expense.
dilby
(2,273 posts)Not the tax payers, so maybe Mr. Ham should get on his knees and start praying.