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).
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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.