‘Tragic day’: Fire chief gets fired for attending Christian event, now Supreme Court asked to get involved

The U.S. Supreme Court has been asked to reverse the firing of a fire chief who lost his job in Stockton, California, because he attended an assigned leadership conference.

City officials apparently were enraged because the conference was in a church building.

First Liberty Institute has announced it, and others, have joined to ask the Supreme Court for a review of the case involving fire chief Ron Hittle.

“It is a tragic day for religious liberty in America when someone can...