EVT1
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Post by EVT1 on Feb 7, 2015 2:06:52 GMT -5
And they claim it violates the 1st amendment?!?!?!
news.yahoo.com/kentucky-sued-over-lost-tax-incentive-noahs-ark-224533275.html
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — The Christian ministry building a Noah's Ark theme park sued Kentucky tourism officials Thursday, saying they violated the group's free speech rights by denying them an $18 million tax incentive.
The incentive was meant for the Ark Encounter, a theme park plan that will be built in phases around a 500-foot-long wooden ark modeled after the Bible's story of Noah. State officials said in December that the project's mission had changed from tourist attraction to ministry, and denied the benefit.
Critics of tax incentives for the ark park have also cited potential constitutional violations, saying the state should not be giving money to a group that will practice discrimination in hiring. The Washington-based Americans United for the Separation of Church and State had threatened its own lawsuit before the state withdrew the tax benefit.
The ministry is asking a federal judge to compel tourism officials to place the ark project back into the incentive program.
Kentucky Tourism Secretary Bob Stewart said in a December letter that the state could not provide incentive money to an attraction that would screen hires for religious preference and proselytize to visitors.
Build your own ark- Noah didn't get a tax incentive 
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Post by Deleted on Feb 7, 2015 18:58:41 GMT -5
Yup... people can sue for anything. Hopefully this gets tossed out as "frivolous".
There's literally nothing that they can actually sue for (and win) because what they were asking for is in violation of the law.
They (the Theme Park people) wanted state sponsored (via tax breaks/incentives) church. Not gonna happen.
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