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Title: Debate About Tax Funded Bible Theme Park
Post by: blacken700 on January 30, 2011, 07:45:58 AM

Title: Re: Debate About Tax Funded Bible Theme Park
Post by: Soul Crusher on January 30, 2011, 07:53:25 AM

We fund abortions so why not this?  I'd rather pay for this than killing chilkdren although I prefer to pay for neither at all. . 

Title: Re: Debate About Tax Funded Bible Theme Park
Post by: MCWAY on January 30, 2011, 11:42:52 AM

Try using a more accurate title, Blacken. The park ISN'T tax-funded. It's being offered tax incentives based on projected revenue, much like any other business.

As the legal analyst, Jeffery Toobin, said in the video, were this to go to US Supreme Court, it would likely side with the park and its investors. You could probably use the 2002 school voucher case, Zelman v. Simmons-Harris, where the ruling was that government can fund religious institutions that serve a secular function, as long as such services are available to all institutions in that genre. And, as long as the choice to spend the funds is that of the private citizens, NOT THE government.