Employees at Kentucky's new Noah's Ark attraction must be Christian and 'profess Christ as their savior'

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Need help from the lawyers here -- this is a tourist attraction, not a religious retreat. I can't believe a judge actually agreed this was legal under the Civil Rights Act.

They probably organized as a religious mission which would exempt them from hiring discrimination laws.

http://www.civilrights.org/lgbt/enda/religious-exemption.html

Job applicant: "Oh, yeah, sure, I'm--I'm, like, totally Christian and stuff. I go to church like, all the time--Sundays even. You can check with the--you know, the head guy. Pastor! That's it--the pastor! You can ask the pastor down at the, um, First Church of um Jesus the um Christian..."

LOL!

Yes! "My favorite book? The Bible!" "My favorite book is the Bible and I'd like to read from "Two Corinthians......"

You would think they might at least CONSIDER Jews, right???

After all..."Noah's ark" is an old JEWISH story...

Anti-Semites for sure...Grump, grump, grump...

:) :) :)

;)

I guess they couldn't hire Noah, either.




Idiots.

You'd have to be a died-in-the-wool religious zealot to be able to spout the stuff their outfit believes (Adam and Eve inhabited Earth alongside the dinosaurs, the world is only 6,000 years old, etc.). Not a job for just anyone.

I'm not convinced it will be a profitable business after the first few years.

Years? I was thinking this puppy will crash and burn in less than 18 months.

HR Drone: "Do you believe in virgin birth, a omnipotent, omniscient god without body, parts or passions, miraculous healing, the dead rising from their graves, food being multiplied to feed thousands, that 6000 years ago the universe was created out of nothing in six days, that dinosaurs and man coexisted before an Earth-covering flood wiped out all life save for only a few people and animals in a wooden boat, that a man who was really God and the Holy Ghost, but really only one person, was executed on a cross but came to life again in three days, that a real being called Satan exists, is malevolent and causes all of the world's problems and that you can go to heaven forever with God if you just believe that it will happen?"

Applicant: "If there's a steady paycheck in it, I'll believe anything you say."

(And a month later)

Former applicant, now working: "This job is definitely not worth eleven-five a year!"

Christianity: "The belief that a Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree."

I'd have trouble being a Walmart greeter, never mind a Christian doctrine spouting robot at Noahland!!

RB

What's ironic is that Jews can't work there, because Noah and the Ark is a JEWISH story.

What percentage of their teeth do they need?

More than 3???? LOL

RB

I don't think this "museum" is going away any time soon. I see fundamentalists in my city wearing Noah's Ark jackets for example. It appears they make groups trips up to KY to see the displays.

To be honest, I was surprised that this had to go before a federal judge in the first place. This is not a state-run operation; it's a non-profit Christian group running the thing; and atheists (unlike African-americans, women, and blind people) are not a protected class under federal law.

"non-profit Christian group running the thing"

There's your problem. They are running the park as a for-profit venture. On top of that, they are getting tax breaks for it. The Creationist Museum is a non-profit, this theme park is not.

Being a for-profit public venture means that they can't (or shouldn't) discriminate in their hiring practices. And yes, religion is a protected class (See the Civil Rights act of 1964). In theory, they shouldn't be able to ask at all.

As they are also getting significant tax breaks, that's another problem with discriminating.

They are breaking the law with their hiring practices, unfortunately they found a sympathetic judge. I think it'll go to appeals, depending on how far people want to push it.



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I guess Jewish people wouldn't be allowed to work there, even though Noah's Ark is a Jewish story. Even Catholics wouldn't be allowed to work there, as this sounds like a group that doesn't consider Catholics to be Christian.

There were no Christians back then. If anything they would be Jehovah Witnesses.

The reason could this:
Most amusement parks employ a lot of young gay people. You see it a lot.

There's a story about Disney World having a lot of gay employees, I believe it's titled "Inside The Mouse". I've seen more than a few myself. I once worked at a theme park, and had a team leader who was a nice guy, very friendly and dedicated, but he was quite "flaming", that is, he had a stuffed animal attached to his backpack, and had obvious gay mannerisms. Really good guy, though.

If this is a park designed to promote fundamentalist Christianity, replete with its bigoted side, it only makes sense to require this.

Whew. I won't be the one mucking the stalls out a single window.

Ok, so I'm not 100% familiar with the minutia of Noah's story, but what was the number of the people who actually built the thing? Look at the scale of that thing. This is being built to scale, but not with the same tools/equipment/engineering/manpower.

Couldn't have been done.

It was built by a small ordinary family of Jews.

So is the owner playing the part of Noah? You know what happens to him. His daughters are going to get all Christian on him and do the freaky thing with him.

If I recall correctly, Noah is also considered a patriarch in the Islamic faith.

A flood myth. Imagine that.

That ark's a cheat. They're building it with cranes and treated wood.

I wonder if TBMs will be hired. This sucks.

We were planning to move to Kentucky. Now with the governor's stance on many things and this, we will choose another state. Thanks anyway!!

This is a link to Answers in Genesis - mentioned in the Arc link.
https://answersingenesis.org/



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So why would an atheist WANT to take a job where he or she would be promoting stuff he was utterly opposed to?

Those cages don't look very nice. Are they planning to have animals in the ark? If so, I hope that the Human Society actively monitors the situation.

And I'll bet anything that the park jobs don't pay well at all.

Their site states that the ark animals are fabricated (and the ark will 'prove' that Noah & fam could tend them all).

They plan on adding a petting zoo.