Kentucky state government to provide tax incentives for creation theme park. Help us say NO!
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Kentucky Tourism Development Authority has given preliminary approval for as
much as $18.25 million in tax incentives for the first phase of the Noah's Ark Biblical
Theme Park project in Grant County, Kentucky. A feasibility study will be conducted before final
approval is given, which gives us a little time to make our voices heard.
The park is associated with Answers in Genesis, which runs the Creation Museum in Boone County. The basis of the Creation Museum is that the Earth is only 6,000 years old. The Ark Park will be an extension of this pseudoscience.
Please help us spread the word far and wide that the citizens of Kentucky do NOT approve of using state tax incentives to promote religious pseudoscience!
This will be delivered to state government officials once a significant number is reached.
Thank you!
Kentuckians for Science Education
Updates
August 12, 2014
I am currently preparing a formal memorandum to be submitted to the Kentucky Tourism Development Authority ahead of the feasibility study. We have received inquiries from several local outlets regarding our stance on state funding for this project. Further documentation will be posted here as I receive responses from state officials.
August 12, 2014
The scale of this response confirms the need for a formal challenge against these tax incentives. My team is now preparing a legal brief to present to the Kentucky Tourism Development Authority during the upcoming feasibility study phase.
Reached 100 supporters
August 12, 2014
145 Comments
Retired Professor of Biology (Emeritus) at Western Kentucky University, Former Chair of Biology and Environmental Science at Morehead State Univ. and Dean, College of Science and Technology at Southern Arkansas University.
High school science teacher. Embarrassed for my state right now. Why are we pushing back against reality when we should be investing in real tech jobs for our kids?
A bunch of Kentuckians (Kentuck-ites) should re-read the U.S. Constitution, or at least the First Amendment. And then have someone explain to them what it actually means. (Hint: State money should not go to support ANY religion, particularly anti-science idiocy such as that espoused by Answers in Genitals -- I mean Genesis.
A biology graduate student. Someone with enough formal education in Biology to know better.
Comments not showing, only occupation. I wrote that we can avoid spending anything in kentucky this fall when we're traveling east.
Wyoming
Religion WILL be taxed - MUST be taxed...
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Kentucky state government to provide tax incentives for creation theme park. Help us say NO!
http://www.clipsyndicate.com/video/play/5254815?wpid=11176
______________________________________________________________________
UPDATE/NOTE - Add your comment in the "occupation" box. There's a glitch with iPetitions regarding this issue. I've contacted them, but apparently this bug cannot be fixed.
_______________________________________________________________________
The
Kentucky Tourism Development Authority has given preliminary approval for as
much as $18.25 million in tax incentives for the first phase of the Noah's Ark Biblical
Theme Park project in Grant County, Kentucky. A feasibility study will be conducted before final
approval is given, which gives us a little time to make our voices heard.
The park is associated with Answers in Genesis, which runs the Creation Museum in Boone County. The basis of the Creation Museum is that the Earth is only 6,000 years old. The Ark Park will be an extension of this pseudoscience.
Please help us spread the word far and wide that the citizens of Kentucky do NOT approve of using state tax incentives to promote religious pseudoscience!
This will be delivered to state government officials once a significant number is reached.
Thank you!
Kentuckians for Science Education
Updates
August 12, 2014
I am currently preparing a formal memorandum to be submitted to the Kentucky Tourism Development Authority ahead of the feasibility study. We have received inquiries from several local outlets regarding our stance on state funding for this project. Further documentation will be posted here as I receive responses from state officials.
August 12, 2014
The scale of this response confirms the need for a formal challenge against these tax incentives. My team is now preparing a legal brief to present to the Kentucky Tourism Development Authority during the upcoming feasibility study phase.
Reached 100 supporters
August 12, 2014
145 Comments
Just go ahead and make this theme park and drive people like me, a native Kentuckian with a Harvard Ph.D. in science, further away. Are we going to keep killing our men in coal mining accidents are attract savvy employers who will educate and respect our people?
Retired Professor of Biology (Emeritus) at Western Kentucky University, Former Chair of Biology and Environmental Science at Morehead State Univ. and Dean, College of Science and Technology at Southern Arkansas University.
High school science teacher. Embarrassed for my state right now. Why are we pushing back against reality when we should be investing in real tech jobs for our kids?
A bunch of Kentuckians (Kentuck-ites) should re-read the U.S. Constitution, or at least the First Amendment. And then have someone explain to them what it actually means. (Hint: State money should not go to support ANY religion, particularly anti-science idiocy such as that espoused by Answers in Genitals -- I mean Genesis.
A biology graduate student. Someone with enough formal education in Biology to know better.
Comments not showing, only occupation. I wrote that we can avoid spending anything in kentucky this fall when we're traveling east.
Wyoming
Religion WILL be taxed - MUST be taxed...
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Just go ahead and make this theme park and drive people like me, a native Kentuckian with a Harvard Ph.D. in science, further away. Are we going to keep killing our men in coal mining accidents are attract savvy employers who will educate and respect our people?