Several Carbon Hill city council members and the local Baptist pastor have urged Mayor Mark Chambers to step down.
The mayor of a rural Alabama town who came under national scrutiny for a Facebook post advocating the “killing” of LGBTQ people has refused to resign, despite calls from some local leaders.
At least two city council members expressed support for the mayor in spite of his homophobic comments, Birmingham TV station WBRC reported. Council member Clarence Colbert told the station that Chambers said he was willing to quit to make amends for his remarks, but that he’d urged the mayor to stay.
— Human Rights Campaign June 4, 2019 In a now-deleted Facebook post, Chambers ranted about “a society where homosexuals lecture us on morals, transvestites lecture us on human biology, baby killers lecture us on human rights and socialists lecture us on economics.” Chambers’ comments were posted on Friday ― one day before the start of Pride Month. Sen. Doug Jones later denounced the mayor’s remarks, saying they did not “represent Alabama.”
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