A Nashville district fire chief is in trouble after several of his Facebook posts were published on a local blog.
District Chief Tim Lankford has been pulled from the field and is now doing administrative work while the Nashville Fire Department continues its investigation.
In a letter to Lankford from Deputy Director Steve Holt, the department began investigating when the posts were published on the blog EastNashville.News.
The letter goes on to say that the Facebook posts were perceived as “racial, stereotypical, and threatening toward members of the public.”
One post from Lankford says he was “so disturbed” by the Supreme Court’s gay marriage ruling last year that he could “barely function at his job.”
Another seemingly threatens members of the LGBT community, saying, “The first man who goes into the restroom with my daughter won’t have to worry about the surgery.”