Posted on 10/09/2014 9:57:18 AM PDT by EveningStar
The developer of a Noah's Ark-based theme park in Kentucky said on Wednesday he would fight for his religious rights after state officials warned he could lose millions in potential tax credits if he hires only people who believe in the biblical flood.
Ark Encounter, which is slated to open in 2016 in Williamston, Kentucky, is not hiring anyone yet, but its parent company Answers in Genesis asks employees to sign a faith statement including a belief in creationism and the flood.
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You have it exactly backwards. The state isn’t “taking tax credits from the park,” the park wants to take tax credits from the state. Ark Encounter is a for-profit company seeking public funds, and in order to do so they cannot discriminate against the constitutionally enumerated rights of the citizens of the Commonwealth—in this case those citizens who seek employment with the company—including freedom of religious expression.
If the asshat fits...they wear it.
Time for the ACLJ to come to Kentucky and set them straight!
So, in your mind, the Ark folks have some sort of "right" to tax incentives?
Why DOES a Christian taxpayer, who doesn’t believe in abortion, by an outfit which I’ll call “Planned Infanticide,” etc., and other scams, ad infinitum, have to pay for all of THAT stuff?
private employeres can hire who they want.
if they don’t believe in a core pillar of the business they are working for, they shouldn’t be hired. the place is centered around bible beliefs and the biblical flood account. if you don’t believe that that should be a criteria that rejects someone from hire.
i’d be more interested why someone wants to work at a place that they hold opposite views to. religious people don’t line up to work with the Freedom From Religion group, and i doubt they’d hire a religious person.
that’s a liberal argument:
why should i pay for any policies and wars i don’t support?
It's the individual liberty argument.
why should i pay for any policies and wars i don’t support?
Force. Most policies violate our Constitution.
I wonder how many Christians are hired by Atheist organizations?
I am sure that Planned Parenthood hires a lot of pro-lifers
do they force NPR to hire conservatives?
do they force PP to hire pro-lifers?
etc etc
that may well be, but the average citizen has never been able to send an itemized list along with their taxes and say don’t fund x, y and z with my money.
irs would say talk to your rep and senators about political issues.
Where he went wrong was making a public announcement. He could weed out applicants during the interview process. Just don’t ask pointed questions but let the applicant talk himself into or out of the job.
The ONLY ‘discrimination’ is by gov’t in offering tax credits to SOME biz, but not others
I'm not trying to be flippant about it. It's a big problem. But putting a religious for profit company on the dole doesn't help matters IMO.
so why is PBS/NPR/PP etc etc getting tax dollars? They don’t hire anyone who thinks they should be shut down
The people of Kentucky want to finance the Noah’s Ark exhibit and the majority of the people in Kentucky are Christian and know that there was a Biblical Flood.
Thus, it is only natural that only workers who know of the Biblical Flood work on building the Noah’s Ark replica.
Having non Christians and atheists building that Ark would be like having Muslims build the Freedom Tower.
Because bad policy and law provides for it. The solution is to roll it back, not make it worse.
So it is okay for those organizations funded by government to have discriminatory hiring practices but not others? So laws only apply to non-leftists?
government has long seen benefits from helping to have businesses there, as well as the benefits of having christians in their communities.
if they had it in their contract they could hire who they wanted, ie there were no hiring requirements or restrictions for the tax breaks, and then government changed their minds and pulled this, i’d say that was just as wrong and a legal violation of the contract.
i’d have to know more about what was made in the agreement between the christian park and the government.
So laws only apply to non-leftists?
That’s the general rule, yes...
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