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 neighbors home. Miss Maddies house was one fire.
Its a frightening day in the United States when a person cannot express their faith without fears of persecution following, White told me. Its persecution when a godly fire chief loses his job over expressing his Christian faith. Thats 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 citys fire chief.
But now Chief Cochrans storied career is up in smoke all because of a book he wrote for a mens 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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A Muslim might probably would gotten away with it. A Humanist would have gone down as well.
Now #665.
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Also:
“Atlanta fire chief fired over pro-family book”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3244446/posts
Or try .. https://www.thomasmore.org/
Choosing to be homosexual trumps the benign characteristic of being black. And that’s because the trunk spelunkers, far out of proportion to their numbers, have wealth and megaphones to destroy anyone who disagrees with their filthy, dangerous, and immoral lifestyle.
Homophobia: Absolutely forbidden. Christianphobia: go ahead, its really ok, no problems. I also note here that according to spell check, homophobia is spelled correctly but there is no word Christianphobia.
Who needs intolerant Muslims when you have intolerant queers?
A review on Amazon:
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By othoniaboys on December 1, 2014
Although I am an elderly gay man who used to commit homosexual acts before joining a church 19 years ago, I must agree that sex was intended for procreation and that what Cochran says is essentially correct. So many gay men have died from AIDS because they had the hedonistic attitude that sex is a game. I had not imagined in 1972 that one day homosexuality would be so accepted, but things have gone too far in the other direction, and anyone who suggests that chastity is a virtue is denounced as a bigot. We are supposed to have freedom of speech, freedom of religion and freedom of the press in America, but the politically correct would burn every heretic at the stake if they could. You need a fireman to put out the fire! Too many of my friends died because they took the wrong path.
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