Ken Ham’s Ark Encounter theme park loses tax incentive

Some good news on this front:

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It looks like we sunk the ship! According to the Courier-Journal the Kentucky Tourism, Arts and Heritage Cabinet has said the theme park has evolved into a ministry that seeks to advance religion and is discriminating against employees. “State tourism tax incentives cannot be used to fund religious indoctrination or otherwise be used to advance religion,” Tourism Secretary Bob Stewart wrote in the letter. “The use of state incentives in this way violates the separation of church and state provisions of the Constitution and is therefore impermissible.” The organization denied any wrongdoing however, a stance hard to defend when the Ark Encounters own website says, “The purpose of the Ark Encounter is to point people to the only means of salvation from sin, the Lord Jesus Christ, who also is the only God-appointed way to escape eternal destruction.”

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Link to Courier-Journal article:

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