Ex-Cop Who Resigned after Being Disciplined over Facebook Post on ‘God’s Invent for Marriage’ Takes Honest Movement
A weak Georgia cop who resigned from his place after going via dicsiplinary actions for sharing his beliefs on biblical marriage is taking appropriate action.
Jacob Kersey, who served with the Port Wentworth Police Division for lower than a year, has teamed up with the First Liberty Institute, a conservative appropriate group primarily based completely in Plano, Texas, following his departure from the police drive.
“We’re hoping that the police department, first of all, components a public apology,” First Liberty authorized educated Christine Pratt, who spoke alongside Kersey, told CBN’s Faithwire.
“They’ve rode roughshod over Jacob’s constitutional rights, and we’d desire to survey them retract what they acknowledged – that they’d as an alternative scenario a protection statement displaying that they perceive what the Structure requires of them.”
Consistent with CBN Files, Kersey hopes that Port Wentworth officials “designate the correct decision” and could additionally fair comprise shut the topic to God if he is welcomed attend.
“I need to pray about it and designate what doorways delivery and designate the place God leads me,” he acknowledged. “At the pause of the day, I hope that they designate the correct decision … to guarantee that they protect the rights of the diversified officers that nonetheless work there.”
As reported by Faithwire, Kersey resigned from the police department after controversy ensued over a put up he shared on Facebook about “God’s accomplish for marriage.”
“On Jan. 2, I made a Facebook put up while I was off-responsibility about God’s accomplish for marriage,” Kersey acknowledged final month. “And the put up merely said that God created marriage, marriage refers to Christ within the church, and that’s why there’s no such part as homosexual marriage.”
He accepted that his direct patrol supervisor urged him that someone complained about his put up, even though he wrote it in his possess time.
“He said that someone had complained [and] that I would must remove the put up,” Kersey acknowledged. “And I said, ‘Successfully, that’s a deeply held Christian belief of mine. I won’t be ready to remove it.’”
Rapidly after, Kersey’s police chief told him his Facebook put up can be likened to announcing the N-observe.
“He equates me to basically the most horrific extra or less racist, fair on chronicle of I hang a belief in God’s accomplish for marriage,” Kersey acknowledged, adding that the case left him in “entire disbelief.”
“I knew straight that I wished to comprise shut a stand for God’s Be conscious. I imagine that used to be the Holy Spirit on chronicle of I liked law enforcement, and I admire law enforcement.”
In May possibly 2022, Kersey joined the Port Wentworth police drive and graduated from the academy final September.
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Milton Quintanilla is a contract author and inform creator. He’s a contributing author for Christian Headlines and the host of the For Your Soul Podcast, a podcast dedicated to sound doctrine and biblical truth. He holds a Masters of Divinity from Alliance Theological Seminary.