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RussBLib

(9,666 posts)
Mon May 11, 2015, 11:24 AM May 2015

Voters reject Christian-themed water park

There's a headline you don't often see in Texas.

Brazoria (Texas) voters on May 9 rejected a $1.75 million bond referendum that would have funded a Christian-themed water park. Brazoria is a town about 60 miles south of Houston.

It was a pretty small turnout in the town of only 3,000 people, but normally you would expect the fundies to turn out en masse. Instead, out of about 400 votes cast (yeah, about 15%), the referendum was rejected by a 70-30 margin.

I'll take those small wins any day.

Original is here.

You want a Christian-themed water park? Build it yourself and don't expect public money! Duh!





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Voters reject Christian-themed water park (Original Post) RussBLib May 2015 OP
I have never heard of something like that - a publically funded hollysmom May 2015 #1
Good for the 280 or so voters who rejected this nonsense! mountain grammy May 2015 #2
That's great, but frogmarch May 2015 #3
LOL! Love that sign. onager May 2015 #4
you're probably right RussBLib May 2015 #7
Pity - the Christian-themed walking paths would have been a people-watching blast whatthehey May 2015 #5
I'm curious what that would be like. deucemagnet May 2015 #12
A baptismal wave pool? A walk on water slide? Will Moses part the wading pool? AlbertCat May 2015 #13
I'd love to see them try to recreate Noah's Ark in a water park RussBLib May 2015 #17
Could work AlbertCat May 2015 #22
A $1.75 million bond is quite a lot for a town of 3,000. Curmudgeoness May 2015 #6
Now Jesus haz a sad. Arugula Latte May 2015 #8
LOL!!! truebrit71 May 2015 #9
your signature is literally mesmerizing. PeaceNikki May 2015 #11
Jesus water park? Lordquinton May 2015 #10
You want fries with your loaves and fishes? AlbertCat May 2015 #14
they only serve wine Lordquinton May 2015 #15
Well they're nothing if not cheap. beam me up scottie May 2015 #16
I wonder if there is some dude at the bottom of the slides baptizing the riders. n/t Gore1FL May 2015 #18
Holy Water Land olddots May 2015 #19
that water won't be holy after 1000 kids go through it Lordquinton May 2015 #20
Shit ... GeorgeGist May 2015 #21

hollysmom

(5,946 posts)
1. I have never heard of something like that - a publically funded
Mon May 11, 2015, 11:33 AM
May 2015

water park? I think if it passed, the people could have bought it to a higher court.

And just in passing, I had a friend who grew up a Baptist in Texas and she was not allowed to wear a bathing suit - so it would have had to be male only water park if fundie.

frogmarch

(12,226 posts)
3. That's great, but
Mon May 11, 2015, 11:51 AM
May 2015

I think it's the public funding of it that voters rejected. Some people vote against anything they think will raise their taxes.

RussBLib

(9,666 posts)
7. you're probably right
Mon May 11, 2015, 12:54 PM
May 2015

They would probably love to have a water park, and Christian-themed would be fine too, I'm sure, if it were totally funded by private money.

whatthehey

(3,660 posts)
5. Pity - the Christian-themed walking paths would have been a people-watching blast
Mon May 11, 2015, 12:08 PM
May 2015

I can see it now... Matthew 14:22-33 path to the killer whale exhibit this way...

deucemagnet

(4,549 posts)
12. I'm curious what that would be like.
Mon May 11, 2015, 03:52 PM
May 2015

A baptismal wave pool? A walk on water slide? Will Moses part the wading pool?

 

AlbertCat

(17,505 posts)
13. A baptismal wave pool? A walk on water slide? Will Moses part the wading pool?
Mon May 11, 2015, 07:11 PM
May 2015

Maybe they could do a tie in and launch the Ark in KY!!!!

RussBLib

(9,666 posts)
17. I'd love to see them try to recreate Noah's Ark in a water park
Mon May 11, 2015, 09:29 PM
May 2015

with all those animals on board, yet it still smells daisy-fresh!

Curmudgeoness

(18,219 posts)
6. A $1.75 million bond is quite a lot for a town of 3,000.
Mon May 11, 2015, 12:50 PM
May 2015

I guess the "taxed enough already" crowd overpowered the "Christians need a water park" crowd.

I am not sure how this would even be legal, majority voting for it or not. Like we don't "give" enough tax money to religions just by not taxing them.

Lordquinton

(7,886 posts)
10. Jesus water park?
Mon May 11, 2015, 02:38 PM
May 2015

THat would be really boring, you'd just be walking all over, giant spiral staircases, really steep ramps, a lazy pathway...

Lordquinton

(7,886 posts)
15. they only serve wine
Mon May 11, 2015, 08:01 PM
May 2015

Bottled wine, for some reason all the bottled water disappears. Really dry crackers too.

beam me up scottie

(57,349 posts)
16. Well they're nothing if not cheap.
Mon May 11, 2015, 08:40 PM
May 2015

Plaster Jeebus and other christian symbols all over the public domain - fine, other people make the stuff and install it, it's free.

Expect me to shill out mega bucks for a water park?

Hell no!

 

olddots

(10,237 posts)
19. Holy Water Land
Tue May 12, 2015, 02:19 AM
May 2015

will eventually be built in Indiana and be funded by the Klan and Sheldon .............

Lordquinton

(7,886 posts)
20. that water won't be holy after 1000 kids go through it
Tue May 12, 2015, 03:44 AM
May 2015

not enough priests in the state to counter that much pee.

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