i keep hoping to find THE authentic reason for the fire chief's firing. thus far it appears be this:
[emphasis added by bubba]
Atlanta Fire Chief fired after publishing book calling homosexuality ?unclean,? ?vulgar? - Atlanta Business Chronicle
shirley, there must be more to have caused cochrane's termination than what he wrote, as there is nothing in his screed which would place anyone in harm's way, such that there is now a call for safe working conditions
and if there is truly nothing more than his words that instigated this termination, then we should sound the alarms, because this man's right to free speech has been very much violated
if one's new supervisor shows up wearing unadorned, understated clothing, with her skirt well below he knees, the frequent dress of those who subscribe to the southern baptist religion, do we also fear her ... because we now have reason to believe her own moral viewpoints are near identical to cochran's. they share the same religious ideology. so, even tho she has not written/published a treatise, we might well conclude that she, too believes that homosexual acts are sinful and to her, aberrant
how about if she arrives in a burka. does that indicate a personal openness to a hedonistic or homosexual lifestyle. so, should her subordinates be scared of her, as the LBGT staff of atlanta fire were scared of their supervisor
and if you respond, 'no of course not', to my above questions, as in neither example did the supervisor write/publish such intolerant views, then does that not tell us that the difference was only that the fire chief exercised his right of free speech in a way that they did not
so, maybe there is more to this than we have access to, but by withholding it, the government of atlanta does not hold itself in good stead. it appears to have fired a very moral man for advocating his personal morality and having the temerity to exercise his right of free speech to articulate his personal views