Same sex couples denied entry to Creation Museum’s Date Night — Murderers Are A-OK
After being admitted to Petersburg, Kentucky’s Creation Museum as a ticketed, paying customer seeking to witness firsthand the power and glory of their “Date Night,” it didn’t take long for the museum to show its true colors…
Three of us (myself, my girlfriend and our friend Brandon) passed the security checkpoint despite minor scrutiny. We arrived right at 6:00 p.m.; Ken Ham was just beginning his talk of love in the museum’s special effects room, and we were eager to hear it. Brandon’s “date,” Joe of Barefoot & Progressive, was late, and so the solo Brandon was the focus of much interest for the two guards, who carried the air of actual police.
“What kind of car will she be driving?” asked one of the guards. They wanted to know so they could keep strict tabs on who came into the museum.
“Oh,” I said. “His partner’s name is Joe. I think he drives one of those hybrids…”
No sooner had I uttered the word partner that the officer exchanged glances with a fellow guard, whose name badge read D. McDonald.
“Joe?” McDonald asked.
“Yeah,” I said. “Is there a problem with that?”
McDonald then informed us that the security staff had had a meeting earlier in the morning in which this very scenario was discussed. “You guys (my girlfiend and I) can go inside,” he told us, “but your friend and Joe cannot.”
When pressed on the issue, McDonald said that an “un-Christian” couple like Joe and Brandon would upset the evening for everyone, and, as proof, the museum’s website explicitly stated that couples like Joe and Brandon would not be allowed entry. (For the record, it does not)
I told McDonald that it wasn’t very Christian to exclude people, to which he rhetorically asked ”How exactly is it Christian to be gay?”
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My, my. Homophobia among creationists? It’s like learning there’s gambling at Rick’s all over again.
What sort of folks do they prefer to let in?
LEBANON — An Ohio man — who killed his ex-wife’s new husband but was found not guilty by reason of insanity in 2000 — has received permission to leave the state to visit the Creation Museum in Petersburg, Ky.
It will mark the first time in 11 years that Jeffrey D. Bornhoeft will be allowed to leave Ohio for a trip his father said he is taking because he has become involved with a church since the shooting death.