Georgia Criminalizes Christianity. Who’s Next?

It began last year when Mayor Kasim Reed fired Atlanta Fire Chief Kelvin Cochran for publishing a Bible study that didn’t comport with the LGBT agenda.

by Rod D. Martin
May 6, 2016

Georgia has made it abundantly clear: if you hold to Christian morality, your job is forfeit.

It began last year when Mayor Kasim Reed fired Atlanta Fire Chief Kelvin Cochran for publishing a Bible study that didn’t comport with the LGBT agenda. Cochran had pre-cleared the book with appropriate Atlanta authorities before publication. That wasn’t good enough for Reed, who waited until after publication to lower the boom. Cochran, who was named last month to the Southern Baptist Convention’s Resolutions Committee, is suing the city.

It would have been easy to believe it was just one bigoted mayor. But alas no.

Last week, Dr. Eric Walsh, a renowned public health expert who also serves as a  bi-vocational pastor, filed a federal lawsuit against the Georgia Department of public health. Walsh, it turns out, was fired for preaching sermons on the first chapters of Romans and Genesis.

If one can now be deprived of their livelihood for believing the Bible, how is that me…