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Liberal sports reporter: Golden State Warriors’ coach may have been fired for ‘traditional values’

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SAN FRANCISCO, CA , May 12, 2014 ( LifeSiteNews.com ) – A liberal sports columnist for the  San Francisco Chronicle  is  speculating  that the recent firing of Golden State Warriors ’ basketball coach Mark Jackson may have come down to his Christian faith being a poor fit for the San Francisco-based team in the mind of its openly homosexual president. Jackson also pastors a church in the Los Angeles area. “Everything about Jackson was under scrutiny, which includes his very public persona as a religious man,” wrote Ann Killion at  SFGate.com .  “It was probably not at the top of the list, but was probably on the list.”   Mark Jackson “I’ve often wondered how comfortable it was for Jackson and team president Rick Welts to co-exist in the same organization,” Killion continued. “Welts is openly gay, becoming the first high-ranking executive in professional sports to come out back in 2011. He’s a strong, professional leader who is excellent at his job.  Jackson is a fundamental

San Francisco judge: DOMA ‘discriminatory’ for denying same-sex partner benefits

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James Ware, District Judge (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) SAN FRANCISCO, April 11, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A federal judge in San Francisco has called federal law defining marriage as between a man and a woman discriminatory for preventing partner benefits from going to a federal employee’s homosexual partner. On Tuesday, Chief U.S. District Judge James Ware said that the government’s guarantee of a “discrimination-free workplace” was violated when Christopher Nathan, a law clerk for U.S. Magistrate Maria Elena James, attempted but failed to obtain insurance benefits for the male lover once recognized by the state of California as his “spouse,”  reports  the San Francisco Gate .  Although same-sex “marriage” is not legally recognized in California, the state has continued to treat as valid marriage licenses issued to homosexual couples during the 5-month window that the practice was legal in 2008. Because the ruling was part of the court’s employee dispute-resolution program, Ware