The city of Atlanta has asked a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit filed by its former fire chief, who lost his job in January after he published and distributed to city employees a book publicizing his religious conviction that same-sex relationships are “vile” and a “perversion.”
The city and Mayor Kasim Reed challenged claims by the ex-chief, Kelvin Cochran, that he was fired for publicly expressing his religious beliefs—in this case, that any sexual relationship other than that of a man and woman who are married is abhorrent.
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