Preliminary OK for Ark tax breaks
Lexington Herald-Leader
Dec 21, 2010


FRANKFORT — A state tourism board gave preliminary approval Monday for a
religious theme park to apply for up to $37 million in state tax incentives.

The six-member board voted unanimously to give preliminary approval to
the Ark Encounter park in Grant County.

The centerpiece of the Ark Encounter park will be a 500- by-75-foot
wooden ark, billed as a replica of the biblical Noah's Ark. The proposed
project has garnered national and international attention, with critics
questioning whether granting state tax incentives to the project would
violate laws separating church and state.

Gov. Steve Beshear has said the law does not allow the state to
discriminate against a for-profit business because of its subject
matter. But some groups concerned about the separation of church and
state have said they might sue the state if the incentives are granted.
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They'd damn well better sue the state. Tax incentives for a religious
theme park?

Oh, I didn't mark this OT because it concerns a boat, albeit a mythical one.

"... a 500- by-75-foot wooden ark, billed as a replica of the biblical
Noah's Ark..."

Yeah, right, of course it is. What it is is another crock of religious
crap.