Religious discrimination
I never discriminated against anyone. Still, I was fired: Former Black fire chief
The threat to religious liberty I faced impacts all Americans, not just Christians. No one should lose their career because of their conscience.
Kelvin Cochran
Opinion contributor
As a country music lover, one of my favorite songs is Lee Greenwood's "God Bless the USA." You know the one:
“If tomorrow all the things were gone, I’d worked for all my life/ And I had to start again with just my children and my wife;/ I’d thank my lucky stars to still be livin’ here today;/ ‘Cause the flag still stands for freedom, and they can’t take that away.”
Or can they?
On Jan. 6, 2015, the childhood-dream-come-true career I had worked for all my life was abruptly taken away because of a book I wrote for my Christian men’s Bible study and shared with a few of my colleagues. A few of the book’s 162 pages explained my beliefs, grounded in the biblical view of marriage and sexuality.