Telling the Truth Can Get You in Hot Water

 Pretty amazing how quickly free speech in America seems to be vanishing.  One would think you could post a simple idea about how God is the designer of marriage so He gets to define what it is.  This GA police officer found out rather quickly that that's not the case.

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." 

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 LGBTQ community. Kersey still refused to delete the post.  

The police officer received a phone call later that day from the police department's Maj. Lee Sherrod, ordering him to come to the office the following morning, Jan. 4, and turn in everything he had that belonged to the city.  

Kersey told The Daily Signal that he believed he was going to be terminated.  

When he arrived at the police station, the young officer met with Sherrod, Hardy, Capt. Nathan Jentzen, and Police Chief Matt Libby.  

He was told that he was "being placed on administrative leave while the city investigated to see if I could keep my job," Kersey said. "I was told that I was wise beyond my years, an old soul, and that they brag on me all the time, but that I couldn't post things like that."  

Kersey said Libby told him that his Facebook post on marriage was the "same thing as saying the N-word and 'F-- all those homosexuals.'" Kersey said his captain told him that his free speech "was limited due to my position as ... a police officer." 

Here;  Christian Cops Under Fire - Risking Your Job To Support Traditional Marriage (prophecynewswatch.com)