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Terminated Fire Chief Kelvin Cochran's lawsuit for discrimination can go forward, a federal court ruled Wednesday. The news comes in a press release issued by the Alliance Defending Freedom , which is representing Cochran. ADF says the court's decision was based upon the orthodox Christian's "primary claims of retaliation, discrimination based on his viewpoint, and the violation of his constitutionally protected freedoms of religion, association, and due process (firing without following proper procedure)." Cochran   lost his job in January   after publishing a book about Christianity in which he upheld Christian teachings on marriage and sexuality. The city's mayor suspended Cochran without pay for 30 days and ordered him to take " sensitivity training ." Cochran was eventually fired despite a city investigation that found the fire chief had not engaged in discrimination. “A religious or ideological test cannot be used to fire a pub...

English: Kasim Reed (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) The City of Atlanta has sacked its fire chief for expressing his personal religious beliefs in a Bible study publication. The city’s mayor accused Kelvin Cochran, an African- American Baptist church deacon, of “discrimination” and questioned his judgment and management capabilities after gay activists complained about the book. While announcing Cochran’s January 6 dismissal, Mayor Kasim Reed strove to quash any claims that the issue was about Cochran’s First Amendment rights . “This is not about religious freedom,” Reed declared. “This is not about free speech. Judgment is the basis of the problem.” Reed suspended Cochran in November because of what he wrote in two brief passages of his 160-page Bible-study, “Who Told You That You Were Naked?” which was published in 2013. In defining "uncleanness" Cochran wrote, “whatever is opposite of purity; including sodomy, homosexuality, lesbianism, pederasty, bestiality,...

Atlanta Fire Rescue Chief Kelvin Cochran has been suspended for one month without pay, ordered to undergo sensitivity training, and told by government officials to check his beliefs “at the door” for publishing a book affirming that homosexuality and other forms of sex outside marriage violate the Bible's teachings. Last November Cochran, a former Obama administration appointee, published the book  Who Told You You Were Naked? Cochran, a Baptist deacon, says to be “naked” in the Biblical sense means to suffer “condemnation and deprivation.” But Christians “have been clothed with Christ! Redeemed men who carry the curse of condemnation and deprivation cannot fulfill their purpose as husbands, fathers, community and business leaders — world changers!” Certain behaviors, he warned, lead to a life that inherently contradicts God's blessings. “ Sexual acts pursued for purposes other than procreation and marital pleasure in holy matrimony is the sex life of a naked m...