From the Daily Caller.
Excerpt:
A fire chief in Atlanta has officially been fired on Tuesday by Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed for self-publishing a book, in which he argued that homosexuality was immoral, GA Voice reports.
The initial review period which began at the end of fire chief Kelvin Cochran’s November suspension is now over. Cochran’s termination finally came in on Tuesday, and gay advocacy groups moved quickly to reiterate their support of the mayor and condemnation of Cochran.
[…]Back in November, Reed placed Cochran on suspension without pay and forced him into sensitivity training after it was discovered that Cochran had argued that homosexuality is immoral.
[…]Former fire captain and lesbian Cindy Thompson sent a tip to the magazine GA Voice after hearing about the book from other fire fighters. Thompson then went directly to speak to Reed’s LGBT liaison, which set the scandal in motion.
After further attention from GA Voice, the Reed administration issued a statement saying they were unaware of Cochran’s work before it hit the printing presses.“The Reed administration was not notified of the book before it was published. The Reed administration will not tolerate discrimination of any kind…The Reed administration is currently conducting a review of the facts surrounding the book. If disciplinary action is recommended as a result of the investigation, we will take decisive action to prevent any inappropriate behavior from occurring in the future,” said spokesperson Anne Torres for Mayor Reed in late November, according to GA Voice.
Reed made sure to tell the press that Cochran’s views expressed in a 2013 book neither represented him nor the city. Some gay groups stated at the time that Cochran’s punishment wasn’t nearly harsh enough. “He will be back in charge and I am sure telling his staff anti-LGBT stuff…The Mayor should fire him!” Glen Paul Freedman, chair of Georgia Equality’s board of directors, said.
During his tenure as mayor, Reed moved away from past views and openly embraced gay marriage in 2012 after years of advocating for LGBT policies.
“It is well known that I have gone through a good bit of reflection on this issue, but listening to the stories of so many people that I know and care about has strengthened my belief that marriage is a fundamental right for everyone. Loving couples, regardless of their sexual orientation, should have the right to marry whomever they want,” Reed said in a 2012 statement.
There’s a reason why I blog under an alias.
Notice how the lesbian thought that the best response to someone who disagreed with her views on morality was to have him fired. Yet, the gay rights movement is regularly referred to as tolerant, diverse and non-discriminatory. Well, I would never fire a person just because they expressed a belief in same-sex marriage. I don’t think it’s nice to go after a person’s job because they don’t agree with me on the definition of marriage. I’m a tolerant person – I allow people to keep their jobs even if they don’t celebrate every moral view that I believe in. That makes me different from gay activists, apparently.
WINTERY KNIGHT 
“Notice how the lesbian thought that the best response to someone who disagreed with her views on morality was to have him fired.”
Yes. Persecution of livelihood.
What magnifies it is that it’s costly, time-consuming, and uncertain whether you’d win or whether it’s worth pursuing a wrongful termination lawsuit.
IMO, with a judiciary and a bureaucratic system under the control of the libs, it’s not worth it. Plus, it wouldn’t surprise me if it’s hard to find legal representation.
While I have heard of Alliance Defense Fund and Jay Sekulow, it seems that with florists and bakers continually losing their court cases, that it’s really difficult to resist liberal tyranny and fascism. Hence, into the closet with anonymous blog names.
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Eh, I don’t know about you guys, but I kinda like all this ‘secret identity’ business – we’re like superheroes without the garishly-coloured spandex costumes. Or super-powers. Wow, my optimistic analogy is really starting to fall apart here….
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“Notice how the lesbian thought that the best response to someone who disagreed with her views on morality was to have him fired.”
Here’s a scenario. Suppose the fire chief was a devout Muslim. And as a devout Muslim he made it known that homosexual sex was immoral through various outlets outside of his professional firefighting duties.
Would this same Liberal Lesbian still push for getting a Muslim fired? What if this Islamic fire chief worshipped at a very devout Mosque? I’m thinking she would not try to get him fired.
But a Christian fire chief? Oh yeah. Let’s go after the Christian.
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In Ontario (since 2012) and Manitoba (since 2013) the law now requires that all public schools and private schools that receive any public funds (as most do) must “promote” as normal “all sexual orientations” (which are left undefined). The rationale for these new laws is to guarantee “safety” for LGBTQ students from “bullying” which is defined to include lots of behaviours, including any comment that makes some LGBTQ students “feel” bad. Straight students & teachers have no such legal protection. They are simply silenced. We are now long past tolerance & normalization of non-heterosexual morality. We are now in public demands for conformity to LGBTQ morality. Freedoms of conscience, association, expression & religion are now history here.
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The more “tolerance” is pushed by progressives, the less tolerance there actually is.
Strange, isn’t it?
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Canada’s largest evangelical university, Trinity Western University, has meticulously planned to add a law school in 2016. It has been approved for academic accreditation at many levels. However, in the past year the law societies of British Columbia, Ontario and Nova Scotia have ruled that TWU’s law grads will be barred from taking exams to be admitted to their law societies (hence barred from law practice in these provinces) because TWU’s community covenant (required of all students and staff) that as a member of that community they will act always to respect the sanctity of a marriage between a man and a woman as the only proper context of sexual intimacy. When the BC College of Teachers made the same objection to the approval of TWU’s faculty of education to grant B.Ed. degrees, Canada’s Supreme Court ruled in TWU’s favour. Hopefully that will be repeated concerning TWU’s law school.
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I covered that story.
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At a recent family dinner over the holidays I made the statement that I didn’t agree with the homosexual lifestyle. The response I got from 5 liberal daughters, their spouses and a few guests was astonishing to say the least. The hatred and vitriol that came out of their mouths not at me personally but at my conservative viewpoint really surprised me. I guess I should have expected some such as this is the San Francisco Bay Area,
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Now we see why the Western Left is so sympathetic and often openly admiring of Muslim radicals. The modus operandi for both is the same: a rigid orthodoxy must be enforced no matter the cost to the heterodox. The Western Left presently does not kill people for not obeying, but of course it has done some relentlessly and routinely over the last couple of hundred years, especially since the end of World War 1.
So when considering either 9/11 or this week’s Paris massacres, the Left will cluck cluck the violence and loss of life, but some of them will (and did) let it be know that the chickens came home to roost and that the murdered did bring it on themselves, after all.
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