Ken Ham: Atheists Are “Bullying” Us By Saying Schools Can’t Visit Ark Encounter

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Ken Ham is execrable...

Creationist Ken Ham believes it’s perfectly constitutional for public schools to bring children to Ark Encounter on a field trip as long as they don’t tell children they must believe what is presented. It’s a complete distortion of how the law works and perfect insight into Ham’s ignorance.
This all started last month when Johnny Pike, American Atheists’ state director in Kentucky, sent a letter to several public school districts in certain counties warning them against common church/state violations:

In the letter to school administrators, Pike said schools should keep school-events secular, which includes field trips. The organization particularly was concerned with field trips to Ark Encounter in Williamstown and Creation Museum in Petersburg.
Additionally, he wrote school staff and employees shouldn’t lead or direct religious activities such as prayer, and said students do not have to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance, citing Supreme Court decisions.
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Every administrator should’ve read that letter and thought, “All of that makes perfect sense.” But Ham treated the letter like a personal attack, criticizing it on Twitter multiple times.
He recently responded with a more elaborate defense of why the letter was misguided, revealing his own misunderstanding of the law. He referred to the letter as “nothing more than a bullying tactic to try and keep children from being exposed to the teaching at these attractions,” which is ridiculous since literally nobody is worried that students will be exposed to “teaching” at his attractions.

http://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/...s-by-saying-schools-cant-visit-ark-encounter/

 

[Jobar]

Poor, poor li'l Kenny. Always getting picked on by us nasty ol' atheists and secularists.

 

[Keith&Co.]

Except the very act of leading a field trip is telling them to believe what they see at the destination.
That's the whole point of field trips.