19-year-old, Jacob Kersey, from Georgia joined the Port Wentworth police department in May 2022 and graduated from the academy last September. After spending less than a year in the force, he has now resigned from his job following a Facebook post he made while off duty, which authorities deemed as offensive and he was equated to being a racist.

The teenager finally speaks out in an interview with CBN, explaining the ordeal he had been through for his Facebook post.

On January, 2nd, Kersey made a Facebook post while he was off duty. The post simply stated that God created marriage and marriage refers to Christ and the church and that’s why there’s no such thing as homosexual marriage. He said that the sentiment was a widely held Christian belief and one which is seen evidently throughout the scripture.

On the following day, he was called up by his patrol supervisor informing him that someone had complained about his Facebook post and asked him to remove it. However, Kersey honored God and stood firm to his belief, he promptly told his supervisor that he would not be able to remove it as it was the ‘truth’.

He was told that his Facebook post could lead to his termination from his job and was advised that he should have a clear understanding on the separation of the Church and the State, which was shocking to him, considering the fact that the authorities had completely misunderstood the concept.

“That’s a terrible misunderstanding of what separation of truth and state means,” he said. “It wasn’t like I was on a traffic stop … I wasn’t handing out Gospel tracks.

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