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US SUPREME COURT DENIES RIGHT TO RELIGIOUS FREEDOM

WASHINGTON, Dec 2 (LSN) - On Monday, the US Supreme Court rejected the appeal of Rev. Eugene Lumpkin, the pastor of a Baptist church who was fired from San Francisco's Human Rights Commission in 1993 after he offered biblical evidence for his objection to the practice of homosexuality. The Supreme Court justices thus gave tacit approval to a U.S. appeals court ruling which said that Lumpkin had a right to state his views, but that the First Amendment does not "assure him job security when he preached homophobia while serving as a city official.''

The incident stems from media interviews involving the AIDS dilemma, during which Rev. Lumpkin was questioned about his objection to homosexuality. "It's sad that people have AIDS and what have you, but it says right here in the scripture that the homosexual lifestyle is an abomination against God,'' Lumpkin was quoted as saying in a June 26, 1993 article in the San Francisco Chronicle. Based on the preceding remarks Rev. Lumpkin has been branded discriminatory and an advocator of violence against homosexuals by the leftist elite in San Francisco. San Francisco urged the Supreme Court to deny Lumpkin's appeal, saying there was no need to review "legal conclusions that are so obviously correct.''

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