Atlanta fire chief who passed out an antigay book at work loses his religious freedom case
Source: LGBTQ Nation
By Jeff Taylor · Thursday, December 21, 2017
The former fire chief of Atlanta has lost his discrimination case, a federal court ruling on Wednesday that the city had the right to fire him after he passed out an anti-gay book and then campaigned against his subsequent suspension.
Kelvin Cochran passed out a book he self-published, called Who Told You That You Were Naked, at work, leading to his suspension. In it, he condemns gay people as sinful and cursed, and likens homosexuality to pederasty and bestiality. Cochran then tried to rally his Christian allies to contact the mayor, including a Georgia Baptist Convention call to action. This ultimately led to his termination.
He then sued the city and the mayor, Kasim Reed, claiming his religious freedoms had been violated. He was represented by the far-right conservative legal group Alliance Defending Freedom, the group that is also defending Jack Phillips, the Colorado baker who refused to make a cake for a same-sex couple’s wedding and is now having his appeal considered by the U.S. Supreme Court.
In a 50-page ruling, U.S. District Judge Leigh Martin May found that the city had every right to fire Cochran, as he had a supervisor distribute his book in the workplace. It was therefore, the court decided, “not unreasonable for the city to fear” that his expressed view “that the death of all individuals who engage in homosexual and extramarital sex would be celebrated” might cause “public erosion of trust in the fire department.”
Read more: https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2017/12/atlanta-fire-chief-passed-antigay-book-work-loses-religious-freedom-case/
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Though they call it having a "sincere religious belief", which they believe should allow them to legally be bigots, without suffering any consequences!
