It’s like “saying the N-word or ‘F- all those homosexuals,’” the chief insisted.ĭespite the promise they saw in him as a police officer, the three men agreed Kersey would have to be placed on administrative leave while the city considered whether his job could be salvaged.Ī week later, Kersey was given a choice: keep your opinions off social media or turn in your badge.
For that, he was hauled into a meeting with three superiors, Major Lee Sherrod, Captain Nathan Jentzen, and Police Chief Matt Libby, and ordered to “turn in everything he had that belonged to the city.” While people are entitled to their own views, Libby said, talking about natural marriage is the same as using a racial slur. The next day, the Daily Signal reported, Kersey’s supervisor called to tell him that someone had complained about the message. “That’s why there is no such thing as homosexual marriage.” “Marriage refers to Christ and the church,” he explained in reference to in Ephesians 5. “God designed marriage,” he wrote January 2. Now, these dozen senators are making prophets out of conservatives, who warned that abandoning marriage would only usher in a new wave of oppression.įor Kersey, that oppression was swift, coming less than 24 hours after a Facebook post he made on his personal account. “… e have just improved on religious liberty protections … across the United States,” Senator Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) said, despite every legal argument to the contrary. ” Tell that to Jacob Kersey, who was a 19-year-old rookie of the Port Wentworth Police Department, until his supervisors decided his views on marriage were too “offensive.” Try telling Jacob that Christians don’t need to worry that these laws “will be used as a weapon to bludgeon them for their beliefs,” as Senator Young claimed, because this young man - like every American with a bullseye on their backs - won’t believe it.īarely a month after Joe Biden signed his name to the law upending marriage in all 50 states, every excuse these 12 Republicans made is turning out to be exactly what conservatives warned they were - lies. The so-called Respect for Marriage Act, he insisted, offers “far more in the way of religious liberty protections than. “Christians should not be fearful of this legislation,” Senator Todd Young (R-Ind.) wrote in an op-ed for the Indy Star.
But a young Georgia policeman who’s out of a job over his beliefs would beg to disagree. Like the 11 other Republican senators whose moral courage collapsed before the nation’s eyes, Senator Tillis would have you believe there’s no fallout from his vote for same-sex marriage. Last week, North Carolina Senator Thom Tillis (N.C.) bragged to The Washington Post that he doesn’t “vote for anything” that he thinks “will have a serious political consequence.” They were glib words for a man who’d just put his name behind a bill rewriting marriage for every American.
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