'Hell is real' billboard could cost Kentucky ($42 million a year) federal transportation fund

Source: Lexington Herald Leader

'Hell is real' billboard could cost Kentucky federal transportation fund

By John Cheves | The Lexington Herald-Leader

FRANKFORT — Kentucky risks losing $42 million a year in federal transportation funds if lawmakers approve a billboard deregulation bill aimed at saving a "Hell is real" sign along Interstate 65, according to federal officials.

The state House approved House Bill 536, sponsored by Rep. Johnny Bell, D-Glasgow, earlier this week, and the proposal has received one of three required readings in the Senate.

The bill would exempt non-commercial billboards — defined as those that don't advertise products or services — that are on private property from the state Transportation Cabinet's permitting process.

Bell has said he is defending a LaRue County billboard declaring "Hell is real," which stands across Interstate 65 from a billboard advertising an adult bookstore in Upton. A judge ruled the "Hell" billboard to be advertising and therefore subject to laws restricting its location and size. Bell said he disagreed with the judge.




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i hope they lose their federal funding. Fucking proselytizing wingnuts.

though this could result in Kentucky roadways being their own sort of "hell."

as the larger counties, with more of tax base via population and businesses will continue maintaining county roads.

in Kentucky

The religious nutters are everywhere.

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on I-71, SW of Columbus and I-70 west of Columbus.

:)

...don't remind everyone.

Moved to central FL last year. Nice seeing about a 90/10 split of Obama/Biden stickers over McCain/The Twit stickers.

but I also won't mention it to anyone 'cause someone might want to take me there!

I know it's been Cinti and Dayton.

Until I googled that. :wow:

Personally, I liked the name "Touchdown Jesus".

With Dems like this, who needs repukes? :eyes:

just like every billboard is. It needs to go so we--and everyone else--can actually see what a beautiful state this is.



Edited for all the hasty mistakes!

If the Hell is Real billboard were on I-75 around Berea, yes it would be an atrocity and a sin against nature's beauty. But Upton? That area's so boring you could install a nuclear reactor, a junkyard and a garbage dump right next to each other and only improve the scenery. IIRC there's a heavy-duty truck junkyard there; you look at it and think, "that's supposed to be there."

with the letters "ITY" or "TY" :P

"n o t" in front of real


:)

but I prefer things that make it funny or silly. It "defuses" things better ;)

Meanwhile, does anyone remember how the fable goes ...

allegedly "Jesus" died for your sins -- your salvation is guaranteed!!

"Life is Eternal" is also something that should be given thought --

All the world's major religions used to teach Reincarnation!!!

The Bush's will be back, but maybe as women sitting on the floor of some dessert

somewhere swatting flies off their starving children?

How nuts is Kentucky?

Have they just succeeded in getting a lot of religious fanatics into office?

By any stretch. After all, they had slavery but never seceded from the Union. Kind of an independent frame of mind of live and let live. Sure, it's by and large fundamentalist, but they also have a history of electing Democrats for governor, so go figure. You cannot pigeonhole Kentuckians. I oughta know, I was born there, lived there for my much of my early childhood and spent a great deal of time there even after we moved to Ohio. In many ways I love Kentucky, but I also hate it too. I don't think I could ever live there now. I've become much too liberal in my adulthood.

A money from pocket transaction.

"Breed. Give. Breed. Give." :think:

Got their palms out for $$$$$$$.


:banghead:

Apparently bus ads saying "God is not real" (or words to that effect) are the height of offense to true believers, who then demand the sign be taken down. As someone who doesn't believe in Hell, asserting that it does is terribly offensive to me.

If you want it to be.

I propose to fund a larger sign across the road which says "Baloney, Hell was invented to scare you"

The military actions of any armed forces.

Ask the people in Iraq, Afghanistan, Chechnia, areas of Africa where women are raped as a way to show the power of the conquerors.

Problem here in this nation is that so few think that Hell arrives after the demented actions of one's fellow man, while so many think Hell becomes apparent only in some dewey foggy after life state, where Jesus judges you and angels weep.

drive like hell LOL

Easy to find the "Lion's Den Adult Superstore," though.

:rofl:

a real nice place to live!

http://www.hellmichigannews.com/

http://www.roadsideamerica.com/tip/2456

It's the one place civilization intrudes on the hiking trail I'd sometimes hike in the '80's when I lived in MI. It was a great place to pick up some junk food, refill canteens, and head back to the trail.

Ahhh, to be in Hell again, awash in the heat (of summer, of course). Kentucky is right: Hell, MI, is as real as it gets.

I'm sure they would have no problem soaking the members of the congregation for that.

I haven't found anything to indicate that an organized church is behind the sign.

"Here's proof that" above and "...Welcome to Kentucky" below.

This could get pretty complex.