Lexington Herald-Leader Editorial Blasts Answers in Genesis for Discriminatory Hiring Practices

In a scathing editorial today, the Lexington Herald-Leader blasted Answers in Genesis and Ken Ham who, yesterday, were denied tax incentives worth more than $18,000,000 because of their discriminatory hiring practices.

Why does God need so much taxpayer help?

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Does God need to be defended with the demagogic language AIG and its founder Ken Ham use in the holy war against “intolerant liberal friends,” “secularists,” “Bible-scoffers,” and, the most telling, “agitators outside the state?”

Apparently, in AIG’s world, if this could just be settled at home among Kentuckians there’d be no problem giving a whopping tax break to a business that asks job applicants to profess that homosexuality is a sin and the Earth is 6,000 years old.

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Perhaps Answers in Genesis should give up thanking God that intolerant liberals “can’t sink this ship,” and ask the deity instead whether it can be built without more government handouts.

I wouldn’t feel too bad for Ken Ham, though.

Noah seemed to manage just fine without government handouts.

(Thanks to Anthony for the link)