Christian conservative Bryan Fischer
last week came to the defense of Kelvin Cochran, the Atlanta fire
chief who was fired over anti-gay comments.
In a self-published book titled Who
Told You That You Were Naked, Cochran described gays as
“unclean.”
(Related: Atlanta
Fire Chief Kelvin Cochran fired over anti-gay statements.)
After learning that out city council
member Alex Wan had objected to Cochran's book, Fischer told his
radio listeners that being gay ought to disqualify people from public
office.
“This is one of the reasons why,
ladies and gentlemen, I believe being an active homosexual should
disqualify you from public office, because it's a form of sexual
perversion and remember, we're going to have to choose between the
gay agenda and Christianity,” Fischer
said. “We can't have both. It's going to have to be one or
the other and here's a case in point. An active homosexual gets a
copy of the book, on the city council and he says, 'We've got to do
something about this.' And he goes on a campaign, on a crusade to
get this fire chief fired and he pulled it off.”
He added that “the homosexual agenda
is the single greatest threat [to] Christianity, to Christian
liberty, to religious liberty and to the First Amendment” that the
United States has ever faced.