(February 5, 2015 at 6:31 am)Heywood Wrote: Presumably Mr Ham will be suing to protect his rights on the under federal government's Religious Freedom Restoration Act and Kentucky's version of that act. I don't know that Ham wins. I just don't think the case is a slam dunk for one side or the other.
They way I see this playing out is this. Ham sues and looses. He abandons his "statement of belief" requirement (after everyone is already hired) and reapplies for the rebate. Since he is now in compliance with the law he gets his rebate. He also gets to play the victim card to his target market. '
Ham's biggest problem that I see is he doesn't know how to run theme parks which is why his attendance numbers for the creation museum are cratering.
I don't think he will. The park isn't even finished yet, and won't be for a while. He wants that money to build it. I don't think he'll keep people on the payroll doing nothing for months or years just so he can get his way.
And I don't think this is one issue he's going to win on anyway. Employment and non-discrimination laws are strong. If he accepts this money and discriminates against a single person federal laws would cause him to lose a bunch of money. Not only would he lose all the government money, he would likely have to pay fines. The laws usually come down on the side of the employee in this type of thing.
