Americans United for Separation of Church and State are protesting the plan to provide $11M in Kentucky state road improvements to support the Christian theme park where the centerpiece attraction is an alleged replica of Noah’s Ark.
“The Highway-36 appropriation is intended to promote and support a religious, evangelical enterprise, violating the separation of church and state and the Kentucky Constitution’s prohibitions on government support of religion,” said Luchenitser. “The KY-36 road project has only one purpose: to support the construction of the Ark Encounter Theme Park – a proposed biblical theme park that would be in the shape of a full-size replica of Noah’s Ark, using the dimensions set forth in the Bible.” Chuck Wolfe of the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet told CP that the project was necessary given the expected traffic increase courtesy of the Ark Park. “The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet is designing a project to accommodate a significant increase in traffic projected for KY 36 in Grant County, northern Kentucky,” said Wolfe.
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yeah and you wonder why people get mad when the religulous get into office. How about using that money to create jobs and not some single unit eye sore. I swear, if more christian taliban get into office this country is going the way of Rome when it converted right down the tubes.
I don’t know how this relates to gay people, but as interesting as it would be to visit, I have to disagree with the use of tax dollars.
I’ll shelve my objections if this accurate to the Bible ark is opened to scientists for experimentation. Let us put two of every single animal in the world on this boat with a few people and seal it up for a year and see how they fare.
Hilariously, this will be a huge tourist atraction, so, it will also creat jobs. I guess I cannot complain about that, and the commonwealthhas to be neutral in how it allocates it road funds…
(that said, I think its a fundy extravaganza and just ridiculous).
Don’t judge the whole state by it though! A lot of the people behind it are from out of state (or even out of country), and KY is not all nuts. The Governors and Arab American, the Lt. Governor is a very liberal Jewish man (both democrats) and the mayor of Lexington (home of UK and the second largest city in the state) is openly gay, and was open before he was elected. We are not all fundy backwater types (we are just happy to make money off them ;)
(me no type good today…commonwealth has, its road funds, Governor is an Arab American…)