Cop Who Lost Job Over Pro-Traditional Marriage Social Media Post Considers Suing Georgia City

Cop Who Lost Job Over Pro-Traditional Marriage Social Media Post Considers Suing Georgia City
Former police officer Jacob Kersey of the Port Wentworth, Georgia, Police Department, in an undated photo (courtesy of First Liberty Institute).
Matthew Vadum
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A former police officer is considering filing a civil rights lawsuit against a Georgia police department after he was forced out of his job for refusing to delete a Facebook post defending traditional marriage.

The possible lawsuit comes as the Supreme Court and some lower courts have become increasingly protective in recent years of constitutionally based religious freedoms.