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Oh Come On!!! Damn you Ken Ham!
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Oh Come On!!! Damn you Ken Ham!
Creationist's Noah's Ark Theme Park Gets $18 Million Tax Break, Won't Hire Gays, Atheists
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A Noah's Ark theme park created by famous evolution-denier Ken Ham has just received an $18 million tax break from the citizens of Kentucky, many of whom will be prohibited from being employed there.

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Creationist Ken Ham has very strict standards when it comes to hiring people -- not so strict standards when it comes to accepting donations.

His Ark Encounter theme park late last month was unanimously approved for an $18 million tax break -- paid for by the citizens of Kentucky, thanks to the Kentucky Tourism Development Finance Authority -- and after many years of trying to get his second creationist-motivated museum moving, he says they have secured financing and broken ground. What Ham doesn't say much about is a reported donation worth $1 million from the leader of a certified white supremacist hate group.

"The project is slated to include a facsimile of Noah’s Ark and the Tower of Babel, and will proselytize Christian evangelicalism to patrons, an Answers in Genesis spokesman said," reports an NPR affiliate.

But Daniel Phelps, the president of the Kentucky Paleontological Society and vice president of Kentuckians for Science Education, isn't pleased. In an op-ed at the Lexington Herald-Leader, "Non-Christians need not apply," Phelps explains his concerns.

"Ark Encounter is run by Answers in Genesis and is clear about its religious basis," Phelps writes. "According to that organization, the Earth is only approximately 6,000 years old, Noah's flood was in 2350 B.C., and there were dinosaurs on the ark (some of which were fire-breathing dragons)."

That organization, by the way, calls itself a "ministry."

"On the day the tax incentives were recommended, the Answers in Genesis website had a help-wanted advertisement," Phelps notes.

The job description included this statement: "Our work at Ark Encounter is not just a job, it is also a ministry. Our employees work together as a team to serve each other to produce the best solutions for our design requirements. Our purpose through the Ark Encounter is to serve and glorify the Lord with our God-given talents with the goal of edifying believers and evangelizing the lost."

All job postings at Answers in Genesis include this statement: "All job applicants for the non-profit ministry of AiG/Creation Museum need to supply a written statement of their testimony, a statement of what they believe regarding creation, and a statement that they have read and can support the AiG Statement of Faith."

The AiG Statement of Faith claims "it is imperative that all persons employed by the ministry in any capacity, or who serve as volunteers, should abide by and agree to our Statement of Faith, to include the statement on marriage and sexuality, and conduct themselves accordingly."

It also requires all employees to believe and support "the proclamation of the gospel of Jesus Christ as Sovereign, Creator, Redeemer, and Judge," and the "66 books of the Bible are the written Word of God. The Bible is divinely inspired and inerrant throughout. Its assertions are factually true in all the original autographs. It is the supreme authority in everything it teaches. Its authority is not limited to spiritual, religious, or redemptive themes but includes its assertions in such fields as history and science."

Also:

"The only legitimate marriage sanctioned by God is the joining of one man and one woman in a single, exclusive union, as delineated in Scripture. God intends sexual intimacy to only occur between a man and a woman who are married to each other, and has commanded that no intimate sexual activity be engaged in outside of a marriage between a man and a woman. Any form of sexual immorality, such as adultery, fornication, homosexuality, lesbianism, bisexual conduct, bestiality, incest, pornography, or any attempt to change one’s gender, or disagreement with one’s biological gender, is sinful and offensive to God."

In other words, LGBT people and most Christians need not apply.

In fairness, the job posting Phelps mentioned in his op-ed lat month no longer appears on the AiG website, and this note has been added:

The Ark Encounter LLC is the for-profit group that will be responsible for hiring staff for the Ark project. Available positions will be made public at a future time and will be posted on the Ark Encounter website.

Given Ham's strict devotion to an extremist form of religion where everyone must believe as he does -- something it's safe to say even most Christians do not -- how can any other entity of his creation toss those tenets aside and abide by the laws of man?

Even Disneyland don't get discounts taxes.
Damn you Ham!
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RE: Oh Come On!!! Damn you Ken Ham!
I can understand a tax-break if the state thinks this park will bring in droves of idiots and help boost their economy...but then you can't discriminate like this. So fucked up.
He who loves God cannot endeavour that God should love him in return - Baruch Spinoza
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I smell a lawsuit....even in fucking kentucky.
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(August 27, 2014 at 3:45 pm)Minimalist Wrote: I smell a lawsuit....even in fucking kentucky.

Lawsuit, protest march, vandalism….attempt of murder to the owner.
Fine by me.
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RE: Oh Come On!!! Damn you Ken Ham!
A poem by Ken Ham:

God oughta send them gays and atheists straight to hell
But oh golly, their money spends just as well
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."

-Stephen Jay Gould
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Zid, the article you linked doesn't exist, and in my google search, I couldn't find anything to really support what you're saying here. All I could find was that the museum has the potential to get up to 18m in tax breaks and that some groups are opposing it. As for gays and atheists, I did see that Answers in Genesis, not necessarily the park, requires employees to agree that homosexuality is on par with bestiality and that the Bible is literally true, but I only saw it as an assertion by Americans United for the Separation of Church and State.

Could you maybe find another article to support your OP? Don't get me wrong: I want to see the Ark project go belly up, but I want to have the real facts, too.
Nolite te bastardes carborundorum.
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(August 27, 2014 at 3:51 pm)rexbeccarox Wrote: Zid, the article you linked doesn't exist, and in my google search, I couldn't find anything to really support what you're saying here. All I could find was that the museum has the potential to get up to 18m in tax breaks and that some groups are opposing it. As for gays and atheists, I did see that Answers in Genesis, not necessarily the park, requires employees to agree that homosexuality is on par with bestiality and that the Bible is literally true, but I only saw it as an assertion by Americans United for the Separation of Church and State.

Could you maybe find another article to support your OP? Don't get me wrong: I want to see the Ark project go belly up, but I want to have the real facts, too.
I dunno why. I tried to re-edit the post and I verified the link. It's fine yet when I update the post it changes. At the end of the address the word atheists it changes for this one: at%E2%80%8Bheists
And then when you open the link it says that the article don exist(like you say), but check it for yourself at the top in the address site, at the end of the web address the word atheist is altered.

Try any of this ones

http://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com...s_atheists



Creationist's Noah's Ark Theme Park Gets $18 Million Tax Break, Won't Hire Gays, Atheists

http://nuzzel.com/story/08192014/thenewc...break_wont

Can someone tell me why this happens and how to fix it please..because I have just a couple of min before an can't edit the thread.

You know what I'm gonna write the whole article. I know that breaks the rule of pasting from other web sites rule but it's not my fault that the forum alters the web address. And if I get in trouble I'll just have to take the consequences.
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RE: Oh Come On!!! Damn you Ken Ham!
Ok. I finally found one that worked. The guy in your article is wrong. Yes, the Tourism Board approved it, but the Legislature hasn't signed off on it yet. AiG hasn't yet received the funds, and in my humble opinion, they probably won't. I could be wrong. Stranger things have happened.
Nolite te bastardes carborundorum.
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(August 27, 2014 at 4:20 pm)rexbeccarox Wrote: Stranger things have happened.
Don Henley as a prophet?
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(August 27, 2014 at 4:20 pm)rexbeccarox Wrote: Ok. I finally found one that worked.
Like I said I'm gonna post the whole article, I'm not gonna put everyone to search an article just because the link gets altered.
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