Posted on 01/08/2015 2:21:03 AM PST by NetAddicted
Kelvin Cochran was five-years-old when he realized that he wanted to be a firefighter. “My family was very, very poor,” Cochran told me. “We were living in a shotgun house in an alley – three big brothers, two little sisters.” One Sunday afternoon the Cochran children heard a fire truck stop across from their neighbor’s home. Miss Maddie’s house was one fire.
“It’s a frightening day in the United States when a person cannot express their faith without fears of persecution following,” White told me. “It’s persecution when a godly fire chief loses his job over expressing his Christian faith.” “That’s the day that God convicted me in my heart that I wanted to be a firefighter when I grew up,” Cochran said. “All I thought about growing up in Shreveport was not being poor and being a firefighter.”
And God granted Kelvin Cochran the desires of his heart. The little boy in the shotgun shack grew up to become the fire chief of Shreveport. He was named the Atlanta fire chief in 2008 – a position he served until 2009 when was called to serve in the Obama Administration as a fire administrator. In 2010 he returned to Atlanta where he was unanimously confirmed to once again be the city’s fire chief.
But now Chief Cochran’s storied career is up in smoke – all because of a book he wrote for a men’s Bible study group at his Baptist church.
Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed announced Tuesday that Cochran had been fired. The announcement came on the same day Cochran was supposed to return to work following a 30-day suspension.
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>> all because of a book he wrote for a men’s Bible study group at his Baptist church.
But, but... “Separation of Church and State.”
go to here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3244206/posts
for a thread about the book.
Also, a link to buy the book.
We have sent, in the last 48 hours, the book racing up the amazon.com charts.
48 hours ago, it was at #21,000 as of this hour, it is at #598.
Sue them under a 1st amendment infringement, age and racial discrimination.
The laws are written to protect tbe right of the individuals religious concience and must be enforced to protect everyone’s rights, which are equal to each other.
His views didn’t disenfranchise anyone.
They didn’t infringe on anyone’s rights to be gay.
He didn’t intimidate anyone to conform to his thoughts under some penalty he mete out.
KuhRayZee. ..
what did he expect in town run by Democrats. Bet he is a democrat too so he should have expected this too.
“I will not tolerate discrimination of any kind within my administration.”
Except for the discrimination you showed towards the fire chief and all christians.
Imagine if the Fire Chief wrote a book about coming out as gay. The city would have celebrated it, but professing Christian beliefs will now get one fired. There’s a weird role reversal where gays can be openly gay at work and Christians now have to be closeted.
So said Mohammad Kasim Reed, Mayor of Atlanta.
“Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed”... stopped right there. An arabic name on an African American signals that the individual is a member of he “perpetually aggrieved” class and therefore hard lefty.
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“This is about judgment,” Mayor Reed said during a Tuesday press conference. “This is not about religious freedom. This is not about free speech. Judgment is the basis of the problem.”
EVERY time we speak we are making some sort of judgment.
Thanks for posting this. Bought a copy this morning. :-)
This is certainly grounds for a lawsuit, and I think he should run against the mayor in the next election. He would likely win in a landslide, even in Atlanta, I suspect. Though Atlanta is largely black and thus Democrat, MANY blacks are not in favor of queerdom.
Bump for the fire chief.
He wasn’t fired for his faith. He was fired for speaking his mind outside of work. It’s a far more insidious problem because it affects everyone regardless of their belief system.
Everyone except Muslims and secular humanists.
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