Former Rocketown employee Wes Breedwell
Our journey is not complete until our gay brothers and sisters are treated like anyone else under the law — for if we are truly created equal, then surely the love we commit to one another must be equal as well.
Those words, taken from President Barack Obama’s second-term inauguration speech yesterday — also Martin Luther King Jr. Day — will be recorded as the first addressing gay rights uttered by a sitting president on such an occasion. The same day as those historic words were spoken, however, a Nashville man named Wes Breedwell alleged he was fired from his job as music venue manager at Rocketown — the Nashville non-profit, all-ages music venue, coffee bar, skate park and youth ministry founded by Christian singer Michael W. Smith — when he showed up to work wearing an “I Support Same-Sex Marriage” T-shirt.
