EXCLUSIVE: Police Officer Resigns After Being Put on Leave for Facebook Post on Traditional Marriage

Daily Signal.com ^ | 1/25/2023 | Virginia Allen

[Beave Meister]

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.

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 Jan. 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.”

[Beave Meister]

Good for him, he no longer has to deal with the politics of his profession.

[BenLurkin]

“Constructive termination” perhaps?

[BenLurkin]

“Constructive termination” perhaps?

[George from New England]

He will be rewarded in many other ways.

[BipolarBob]

If you are a public servant you have lost your First Amendment Rights unless you espouse liberal viewpoints that are "woke", pro-abortion and pro-homosexuality).

[toddausauras]

How come lgblt can propagate their beliefs? Bad times.

[gibsonguy]

So sick of this. It was his Facebook page done on his computer on his time. It’s time to revive the 1st amendment. He should sue the PD.

[bk1000]

“How come lgblt can propagate their beliefs?”

I believe it is in the way they present their issues. If you are against their position you are a hater. If you are for it, you are an ally. Start presenting wokeness as Christian hate. Become a victim. Turn it around on them. Also know that, as a Christian I do not believe myself to be a victim, but it is time to actively play the game. As the left seems to be making the rules at this time, we need to enforce them until they choke on them.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

#5: "If you are a public servant you have lost your First Amendment Rights"

True indeed. As a public servant you are compelled to kneel down and worship at the altar of Baal.

[Bob434]

If the lgbtq crowd gets to voice their views aithout fear of being termi ated fro. Their jobs, then he too should have the right to express his views without fear of being terminated ated from His job.

The left are turning our nation Into a dictatorship where dissenting views are deemed illegal and punishable. It seems to me that he is being fired in an act of religious discrimination.

[Organic Panic]

Every cop should quit. City officials hate them and the communities they serve hate them. Why go to work for people that hate you?

[Jeff Chandler]

The ayatollahs have spoken.

[bunkerhill7]

No cop-out

[Rdct29]

They got him to resign because they knew he could sue them and get his job and back pay. The officer was only 19 years old which is young for a cop. Usually the minimum age is 21 years old. He quit because he didn't want to risk losing at trial. I'm sure the department told him they would destroy his record and future if he filed a lawsuit and lost. He's probably better off leaving that woke police department.

[toddausauras]

I love it!

[SuperLuminal]

Can remember the days when that post would have made him a hero in GA...

Back before it became a suburb of Sodom...

[Midwesterner53]

He is the officer I would want in an emergency. God bless you sir.

[Pajamajan]

From the title, I assumed this was about. California or some other blue state?

What happened to Georgia?

[gnickgnack2]

Ghettopotamus and Friends.

[fwdude]

The “doesn’t affect you” crowd strikes again.