Ken Ham files lawsuit against Kentucky

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The court can decide if it is a Bonafide Occupational Qualification.....if Ham makes it an issue. I think Ham could make a good faith argument that it is.

Yes, I suspect a highly specific set of young earth creationist beliefs is integral to one's understanding of the technicalities of CAD programming.

Why should we be funding them anyway, religious or not, we shouldn't be giving freebies to the NFL either. If that idiot wants to build a theme park he should use his own money.

The funding Ham was going to receive was as part of a tourism incentive, where Ham claimed that he would be bringing in millions of tourists to the state, based on a predictive report that he hired a friend of his to make for him. Obvious conflict of interest aside, state investigators later wrote their own report, finding that Ham's cohorts had fudged the data hugely in an attempt to make the park look more palatable. Ham's response was to petulantly say "nuh uh!" and demand that the original report was the right one to use, because he said so.

As to funding the park with his own money, he can't: even with the donors he has, he's relying on the state incentives to build all but the most basic structures of the plans, calling the rest a second phase he'll be building with the state's money. That's why he's whining about this so hard: no tax breaks, no park worth a damn.

Regardless of Kentucky law, wouldn't receiving government incentives while simultaneously trying to claim the right to discriminate on religious grounds violate the separation of church and state established by federal law?

This is, I think, precisely the reason Ham got his funding pulled. And why any ruling by neutral judges will cause Ham to fail in his suit.