i guess calling them filthy disease ridden queers would be looked down upon also then...
Posted on 01/24/2015 12:01:47 PM PST by Steelfish
Atlanta Fire Chief Fired After Calling Gays 'Vile' Claims Religious Bias
By JENNY JARVIE The former Atlanta fire chief, who was dismissed by the city’s mayor this month after writing a book in which he said homosexuality is “vile,” has filed a federal discrimination complaint against the city in a case that is testing the issue of religious expression in the workplace and mobilizing Christian conservatives to his defense.
Kelvin Cochran, the ousted chief and a deacon of Elizabeth Baptist Church in southwest Atlanta, filed a complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, accusing the city of violating Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which protects against religious discrimination.
Cochran claims he was discriminated against when the city terminated him from his position on Jan. 6 after he self-published “Who Told You That You Were Naked?” a book about his personal religious beliefs
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Apparently some liberals would rather have their homes burn to the ground than to have the fire put out by any firefighter not 100% on board with the homosexual/abortion agenda.
I bet he really hates the flaming homos, going around causing fires and everything.
i guess calling them filthy disease ridden queers would be looked down upon also then...
Go get’em chief.
World-renowned evangelical speaker John Piper mentioned this in his sermon last Sunday. This is going to be the wave of the future in America as orthodox believers in America will have to choose between their jobs or acceptance of nonbiblical lifestyles.
Kelvin is a good man. He never hid his religion. Prior to moving to Atlanta, he was the Chief of Shreveport Fire Department. I hope he retires as a millionaire....courtesy of the Atlanta tax payers.
Don’t gays take joy in being vile? Isn’t that what a Gay Pride Parade is for?
I suspect that neither fired fire chief, or any attorney he might hire, doesn’t know about the 14th Amendment (14A) to legally protect himself from the mayor. Section 1 of 14A prohibits state actions which unreasonably abridge constitutionally enumerated protections, 1st Amendment-protected freedom of religious expression in this case.
Christian business owners forced by their states to do business with gays and lesbians are probably likewise ignorant of their 14A protections.
So if I gagged and vomitted in response to homosexual behavior, am I a hater?
Demented, degenerate, and DISGUSTING! They literally eat excrement and like it!
Correct.
Further, the first amendment's protection for the freedom of assembly (to do business) also encompasses the freedom to NOT do business. Laws which force a business to accept any customer for any reason are a clear violation of the first amendment. The operating rule should be the right to refuse service to anyone for any reason.
Now that you mention it, the Founding States understood the freedom not to do business as evidenced by the language emphasized below in the Constitution’s Clause 17 of Section 8 of Article I.
Clause 17: To exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten Miles square) as may, by Cession of Particular States, and the Acceptance of Congress, become the Seat of the Government of the United States, and to exercise like Authority over all Places purchased by the Consent of the Legislature [emphasis added] of the State in which the Same shall be, for the Erection of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards, and other needful Buildings;—
He only calls it bias because it *IS* bias.
Doesn't really match the title by the Sodomites at the LA Times. The 'act of homosexuality' IS vile. Disgusting, and vomit worthy. People caught in that sin are to be pitied - because a vile lifestyle is degrading, unhealthy, damaging to self and society, and if one does not turn and repent -- leading to a destiny of eternity in hell fire. I don't believe the Fire Chief called the Sodomites vile (although one could argue that they are -- I prefer to say that they are to be pitied and prayed for), but that their actions are vile - which I suspect 99+% of the world would agree if these actions were described. And even if not - God says that it is an abomination, and His vote is the only that counts.
If he had been a bearded savage he would not have lost his job.
Yes, and there are several more instances as evidenced via the first acts of Congress. The problem is that the judiciary has forgotten the definition of a right and by using the force of law have created slaves of the citizenry.
Depends on what what your definition of vile is is
Here’s the paragraph at issue:
“Sexual acts pursued for purposes other than procreation and marital pleasure in holy matrimony is the sex life of a naked man. When men are unrestrained in their quest for sex outside of God’s purpose they will never be fulfilled. Naked men refuse to give in, so they pursue sexual fulfillment through multiple partners, with the opposite sex, same sex and sex outside of marriage and many other vile, vulgar and inappropriate ways which defile their body- temple and dishonor God. This is the kind of sex that leaves a man continually empty— the sex life of a naked man. Who told you that you were naked?”
That’s it. Fired because he paraphrased the Bible, expressing a view a majority of Americans agree with.
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