PORT WENTWORTH, Ga. - A former Georgia police officer who was investigated for a religious social contemplate post that claimed "there's no such thing" as gay marriage said he felt pressured to resign while he was told he could be fired for sharing his beliefs.

Jacob Kersey, 19, who quit the Port Wentworth Police Department sponsor this month, told Fox News Digital that he was placed on paid administrative chop Jan. 4 after he refused to remove the Facebook post he made regarding his Christian plan about marriage.

"God designed marriage," Kersey wrote in the post that was flagged by his superiors following "an anonymous complaint," according to a Jan. 13 letter of notification estimable reported by the Daily Signal and provided to Fox News Digital. "Marriage refers to Christ and the church. That's why there's no such unsheaattracting as homosexual marriage."

Kersey wasn't fired after the investigation, but he said he decided to quit because he was told he could face desire for future social media posts that others find offensive. He said he has spoken with a law firm near possible legal action.

Former police officer Jacob Kersey said he was effectively appointed to resign from his job after being told he could be terminated for posting his religious beliefs on social contemplate. (Jacob Kersey)

In his letter to Kersey, Maj. Bradwick Sherrod explained that while the department's investigation into his social consider posts "did not find sufficient evidence to establish a violation of any policies," his posts regarding "protected classes" such as the LGBTQ shared "could raise reasonable concerns regarding your objectivity and the perform of your job duties when a member or suspected member of the LGBTQ+ shared is involved."

"As we have discussed previously, please be reminded that if any post on any of your social consider platforms, or any other statement or action, renders you unable to do, and to be seen as able to perform, your job in a fair and equitable manner, you could be terminated," the letter reads.

The very also reminded Kersey that same-sex marriage is legal in Georgia and the U.S. after the 2015 Supreme Court decision in Obergefell v. Hodges.

The letter of notification sent to Jacob Kersey on Jan. 13 informing him that same-sex marriage is upright in Georgia and that he could be terminated for future posts on social consider. (Jacob Kersey)

"I did nothing wrong, and they told me that," Kersey said of a unites he later had with department leadership. "That's the reason they did not fire me. They demanded me to come back to work, but they were trying to effect a new department policy that would prevent me from speaking anything that someone somewhere could consider offensive."

He said he was told that he could post exclaim Scripture quotations but not his interpretation of them.

"That is such a risky precedent: that if you're off-duty on your own time, that you could say anything — even something religious, even something at church — if someone somewhere gets offended, you can get fired for it," he said.

Kersey, who noted that he has conducted a podcast for seven existences in which he expresses his opinions, said his original likened his post to someone using the N-word slur. He allowed on Jan. 18 that he had to resign to avoid inevitable desire and potential danger.

"I didn't feel confident that if I were to go out there on the streets and enforce the law, that my exclaim staff was going to have my back," he said. "It's just too risky of a job to do that. And I did not consider it wise to go back to work under those circumstances."

"I consider if you compromise your integrity and your religious beliefs and your faith to win, then you've lost, and I just couldn't do that," he added.

The Port Wentworth Police Department, which serves a town of approximately 11,000 people in the Savannah metropolitan area, did not retort to Fox News Digital's request for comment.

Kersey said latest officers in the department privately communicated to him their serve, and he does not fault them for not defensive him publicly.

"I totally understand why other officers don't want to exclaim out," he said. "I'm a 19-year-old single young man. I don't have a lot of financial plan responsibilities, so I'm able to speak out against this because the only getting I have to lose really is my job."

He is more implicated about what such policies could mean for officers who have much more to lose.

"We're not talking approximately Canada or Russia or China here," Kersey said. "We're talking approximately the United States; and even within the United States, we're not talking about California or New York. We're talking approximately Georgia."

He said many have reached out to him to tedious their "absolute disbelief that something like this is happening in America and that it's happening in Georgia."

Jacob Kersey said he demanded to become a police officer because of the clear impact officers made on him when he was growing up in a veteran home. (Jacob Kersey)

Kersey said he developed a advantageous and admiration for police when they often "would bring peace" to his people while he was growing up in a broken home.

He remembered many of the officers enthusiastic in his family's domestic problems would go out of their way to show kindness to him when he was a boy, which he said "made such a bulky difference in my life at a very young age." Those interactions ultimately inspired him to cause an officer himself when he got old enough, he said.

"I joined the police regions, and for over eight months, I only heard titanic things about my work," he said. "People had nothing but good things to say throughout my work as a police officer."

Jacob Kersey told Fox News Digital that he hopes his memoir will encourage other people and especially Christians to rank up for their beliefs. (Jacob Kersey)

Kersey said he stays uncertain what his career goals are now that he has left the regions, though he said he is considering going back into law enforcement elsewhere, attending college or entering the ministry. He hopes his memoir will encourage others to stand up for what they enjoy, he said.

"In America, most of us will not be phoned to face physical death for our beliefs," he said. "But we mighty be called to face the death of our dreams, we might be called to face the death of our reputation, or we might be called to have other land think bad things about us. But what's important is what God thinks throughout us."

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