Atlanta Fire Chief Kelvin Cochran has been suspended without pay for self-publishing a Christian guidebook filled with anti-gay language.

Who Told You That You Were Naked includes passages like:

• “Uncleanness — whatever is opposite of purity; including sodomy, homosexuality, lesbianism, pederasty, bestiality, all other forms of sexual perversion.”

• “Naked men refuse to give in, so they pursue sexual fulfillment through multiple partners, with the opposite sex, the same sex and sex outside of marriage and many other vile, vulgar and inappropriate ways which defile their body-temple and dishonor God.”

Critics say by attaching his name and position to the book, Cochran is acting as if he speaks for the entire Atlanta Fire Department.

Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed told the GA Voice that he was "deeply disturbed by the sentiments expressed" in Naked, and that Chief Cochran will be required to complete sensitivity training.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reports the terror group executed a 20-year-old in Mayadeen, near the Iraqi border, after allegedly finding videos on his phone showing him “practicing indecent acts with males”.

Another man, 18, was stoned in a separate incident in nearby Deir Ezzor City.

Jennifer Mann and Jodi McDaniel live on a private road in Canton, North Carolina, along with their three children. It wasn't until last week that they realized someone had added the offensive label on the Google site, which sometimes takes input from community posters.

Man told the Citizen-Times she tried to contact Google, but "I was put on hold forever and ever."

McDaniel added, “We just stay to ourselves and live our lives. They just need to grow up.”

The listing has since been taken down.

"As a campaigner against discrimination I know that there is nowhere on Earth I would rather live than London," said Massow, 47. "A vibrant, dynamic and open-minded city, London is a living, breathing example to the world of what a successful multicultural society should look and feel like."

Should he win, London would join Paris, Berlin, Zurich, Seattle and Houston as major metropolises with openly gay mayors.