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‘God designed marriage. Marriage refers to Christ and the church,’ former police officer Jacob Kersey wrote, paraphrasing St. Paul’s teaching in the Book of Ephesians.
(The Daily Signal) — A Georgia police officer has resigned after he was told by superiors that he could not share his personal religious views on social media.
“If someone somewhere considers an opinion I have – that isn’t a direct quotation from Scripture – to be offensive, then that would be a fireable offense,” Jacob Kersey, the former officer, told The Daily Signal.
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Kersey, 19, who began working last May at the Port Wentworth Police Department in a jurisdiction just outside Savannah, says “everything was going well” until the start of the new year.
On January 2, Kersey posted a 20-word message about his view of marriage on Facebook.
“God designed marriage. Marriage refers to Christ and the church,” he wrote, paraphrasing the Apostle Paul’s teaching in the Book of Ephesians. “That’s why there is no such thing as homosexual marriage.”
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The next day, Kersey said he received a phone call from his supervisor, who told him that someone had complained about the post and to take it down.
When Kersey refused, the supervisor warned him that failure to delete the Facebook post on marriage could result in his termination.
Kersey said he then was contacted by Lt. Justin Hardy, who told him that the Port Wentworth Police Department didn’t want to be held liable in a “use of force” situation involving someone in the LGBT community. Kersey still refused to delete the post.
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