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Disgraced Atlanta fire chief wants his job back

Kelvin Cochran, former Atlanta Fire Chief who was fired for his poor judgement, wants to be reinstated and given back pay. Cochran was put on leave and subsequently fired in late 2014 after distributing a self-published book titled “Who Told You That You Were Naked?” to his employees. Cochran’s book refers to homosexuality as “unclean,” “a sexual perversion,” “vulgar” and “inappropriate.” It is also critical of women and misrepresents biblical stories in order to place

Whose religion matters most? Your religion, or your boss’s religion?

If your boss wrote a religious book filled with inflammatory and discriminatory language that even went as far as blaming women for the fall of creation and then handed out copies to employees at work, would that be a problem? Of course it would. That’s exactly what Atlanta Fire Chief Kelvin Cochran did, and it’s one of the reasons he was suspended. Now, Sen. Josh McKoon, Ralph Reed and others who support “religious freedom” legislation