Originally posted by Sparko
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and even if it was, that has nothing to do with it. The first amendment doesn't just protect nice religious expression, but all religious expression. And you obviously are new to the workforce or you have never held a job either. Because you can't fire someone because of their religious beliefs. Now if he instigated a policy of firing anyone who was not Christian or who was gay, then they had a right to fire him. He did not do that.
Is Cochran being threatened with arrest for having made those statements? Is the government forbidding him to make such statements in the future, or demanding that he stop being Christian? If not, then his first amendment rights aren't being violated. And although he didn't technically discriminate, do you really believe gay employees and residents who see that he likens them to people who manipulate and exploit children are going to feel comfortable and trusting around him, confident that he'll be fair to them?
Finally, there's a significant difference between firing someone for saying "I'm a Christian" and firing someone for saying "God will smite you heathens with fire and brimstone for your sinful consensual, monogamous homosexual relationships that are akin to molesting children."
He gave it to friends at work who already were his Christian peers. Apparently they asked him for it. No different from me giving the guy who works next to me a Christian book since I know he is a Christian and shares my beliefs. He did not give it to everyone or make it available to everyone at work. He gave a copy to the mayor and that is how it became "public" - but he was only doing what was right, letting his boss have a copy. It was not meant to be distributed. If it was, then it was the mayor who distributed it.
Bull crap. utter bull crap. which is all that ever comes out of your posts. The mayor can't claim that this was news
or that the fire chief was acting unchristian, or different than any christian in the last 2000 years.
Cochran, as has been stated over and over, got permission to write the book, published it privately, did not distribute it to everyone at work, and did not institute any work policies based on his beliefs.
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