Creationist theme park planners to sue state for not giving them free money

[eridani]

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/02/04/1362281/-Creationist-theme-park-planners-to-sue-state-for-not-giving-them-free-money

n Kentucky, creationist Ken Ham is attempting to build a new theme park. It will be called Ark Encounter, and will feature a full-sized Noah's Ark, and will feature as a "theme" the notion that you can believe in the absolute literalism of every bit of the one book of the Old Testament that Ken Ham personally gives a damn about or you can go right to Hell, you monster, you.

Those of you who are avid followers of Old Testament theme park construction updates will no doubt have heard, however, that the park plans have run into a considerable snag. The state of Kentucky was going to fund the new mini-monstrosity to the tune of $18 million in tax incentives, but those incentives got cancelled because the theme park planners demanded the right to discriminate when staffing the park. You can almost always get a state to throw money your way to build a new state attraction, but it's another thing to propose that the state give you $18 million in free money and carve out a special exception for you so that you don't have to follow anti-discrimination laws when you're doing it.

Now Ken Ham is doing the only logical Old Testament Christian thing. He's gonna sue their asses off for not letting him discriminate.

"Our organization spent many months attempting to reason with state officials so that this lawsuit would not be necessary," Answers in Genesis President Ken Ham said in the statement. "However, the state was so insistent on treating our religious entity as a second-class citizen that we were simply left with no alternative but to proceed to court. This is the latest example of increasing government hostility towards religion in America, and it's certainly among the most blatant."

To repeat, Ken Ham is suing because he won't get his pork.

[3catwoman3]

1. I guess god...

...didn't provide.

[Takket]

2. oh... the irony............

surely he appreciates the irony of saying the state is treating him as a second-class citizen because it won't let him treat people as second-class citizens in the hiring process.