House speaker once won taxpayer funds for Noah’s Ark park accused of bias

Mike Johnson represented Kentucky project said to have used Christian beliefs as a litmus test for hiring decisions'

Mike Johnson, the newly elected Republican speaker of the US House, won taxpayer funding for a Noah's Ark amusement park while working as a lawyer, in a graphic illustration of his uncompromising rightwing Christian beliefs.

Working for Freedom Guard, a non-profit proclaiming a commitment to defending religious liberty, Johnson was hired by Answers in Genesis, a creationist ministry, in 2015, after the state of Kentucky rescinded an offer of tourism tax incentives for the project in Williamstown, citing discrimination against non-Christians.