Ken Ham files lawsuit against Kentucky

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Will Citizens United have any bearing on this decision? Now that corporations are people and can hold closely held beliefs, can't the "Ark Encounter" be exempted?

It would be truly shitty if that clusterfuck of a decision affected even this.

I can only hope not, but since America seems to have a cartoon legal system rather than a real one, I realize the case isn't as cut and dry as it seems to a sensible person. It's a good sign that the state government wasn't taking any of that crap when they first pulled AiG's tax rebates, though.

The other thing is that I don't see Ham's line playing as well to a judge as, say, Hobby Lobby's did: "I have a right to pick and choose which laws apply to me, and to discriminate against anyone I like," isn't really the kind of thing that judges, who apply the law, like to hear, and it's also kinda the only argument Ham can offer. If he insists that he has a right to discriminate that is enshrined in the law then... well, no he doesn't; the law is unambiguously against him. The only real option open to him is the idea that he gets to choose which laws apply to him, and I don't see a decision with that kind of precedent getting made and surviving appeal.