Bryan Fischer is very upset that Atlanta fire chief Kelvin Cochran was fired for violating city employment policies after distributing to co-workers an anti-gay book that he had self-published, responding on his radio program today by declaring that gay people ought to be disqualified from serving in public office.

The American Family Association spokesman reiterated his view that gay people should not be allowed to serve in office after learning that one of the city council members who objected to Cochran’s book is gay.

“This is one of the reasons why, ladies and gentlemen,” he said, “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. 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.”

Fischer then went on to declare that “the homosexual agenda is the single greatest threat Christianity, to Christian liberty, to religious liberty and to the First Amendment” that America has ever faced: