ARK amusement park to get state tax incentive of $18 million >

[brycejones]

Of course not Harry Potter does not promote any religion.

Harry Potter is a tool of Satan trying to turn good Christians away from the good book. Harry Potter most certainly does promote a religious view point.

*note the views just expressed above are not my own but do reflect the views of at least some of the target market for this so-called "attraction".*

 

[zinfamous]

wow. I like how this group's notion of the time of the flood (2350 BC?), occurs after the historically and archaeologically confirmed time period of the Old Dynasty of the Pharaohs...a culture and dynasty spoken about at length in the Bible...which was a clearly unbroken dynasty and time period, for thousands of years.

what do they actually believe? The Bible that tells them about the Pharaohs? Or the Bible that tells them that gawd wiped out everything on earth, except for one horny pervert and his family?

:hmm:

also, this just goes under "Kentucky;" which seems to be in the running to become the new "Florida."

 

[zinfamous]

Because we have oil reserves? :hmm:

well, Kentucky has a plethora of fundy Bible-stroking mountainfolk.

:hmm:

You go where the resources are, right?

 

[nehalem256]

Publicly Brendan Eich wasn't fired to begin with. He resigned from his position and stated outright that it was because he couldn't be an effective leader in present circumstances. Probably due to all of the people boycotting Mozilla and calling for his resignation over this. There could have been pressure behind the scenes but this is all we have to go on, and it's not inconceivable that he would do this for the benefit of the company (as a good CEO would be inclined to do)

But this is still a total diversion, I don't know why we keep getting from hiring discrimination in general and discrimination from companies funded with tax breaks.

Mozilla is a non-profit corporation. It very clearly is receiving tax breaks

 

[Retro Rob]

Just an update:

http://news.yahoo.com/kentucky-no-tax-breaks-noahs-ark-project-044248275.html

Doesn't appear they'll be getting any Tax incentives.

 

[alzan]

Good.

Want to discriminate based on religion? Pay for it on your own dime, not the taxpayers.

Asshats

 

[Retro Rob]

Good.

Want to discriminate based on religion? Pay for it on your own dime, not the taxpayers.

Yeah, and I'm no Kentuckian, but it did seem odd that they'd apply for tax incentives while forcing applicants to sign a "Statement of Faith" before being considered for employment...even to me, it seemed pretty obvious that was outright discrimination.

I'm actually surprised that they thought for a second that those sort of requirements on a job application would escape notice.

 

[alzan]

Yeah, and I'm no Kentuckian, but it did seem odd that they'd apply for tax incentives while forcing applicants to sign a "Statement of Faith" before being considered for employment...even to me, it seemed pretty obvious that was outright discrimination.

I'm actually surprised that they thought for a second that those sort of requirements on a job application would escape notice.

Who knows? Possibly they thought it would be overlooked because of all the tourism money the Creation Museum down the road brings in; possibly they expected Christian-friendly state legislators to look the other way when approving the bill.

Regardless, any organization/company looking to discriminate on the taxpayers' dime needs to rethink both their strategy and their reasoning. Whether a behaviour is is legal or not, the better question to be answered is: "Is it ethical?"