Pride Month Update & My Call for Our Mayor's Resignation | Eastern NC Now

    June 13, 2026 · Councilman Joe Davis

    I was elected on a platform of three things: Faith (#1), Family, and Freedom.

    My Judeo-Christian stance on sexuality represents the record number of voters who elected me as an unaffiliated candidate, and the overwhelming majority of people in Washington who were slapped in the face with a proclamation they didn't vote for.

    This comes from a mayor who needs to resign; she is governing with an active million-dollar lawsuit against our city, a city she moved south to just a few years ago.

    It would be hate on my part to veil the gospel of Jesus Christ. He is the perfect Son of God who came to earth on a rescue mission to save sinners like me and you. He died, rose again, and was seen by over 500 witnesses who refused to deny it even to the point of death.

    To know all this and then support a proclamation that God's word calls an abomination; one that culminates in eternal destruction; would be the opposite of love.

    Real love is warning people of this grave danger. If you saw a baby playing in traffic, would you not try to rescue this image-bearer of God?

    The Bible, which I believe is the infallible, inerrant word of God, speaks clearly on this issue.

    It is actually rooted in three marriages from beginning to end, because God is the creator of marriage. In the Garden of Eden, God presided over the first marriage of Adam and Eve; one man and one woman. Jesus, the Son of God, gave His life for His bride, the church.

    And at the end of the age, there will be the Marriage Supper of the Lamb, culminating in the Church reigning with Jesus forevermore.

    Genesis 1:27 states that God made only two sexes, which effectively ends the transgender debate as we know it: "In the image of God He created him; male and female He created them."

    A few chapters later, in Genesis 19, God rained fire and brimstone on Sodom and Gomorrah, wiping two cities off the face of the earth. Much like American culture, they had paraded unnatural sexual desires and passions.

    This culminated in the attempted gay gang rape of the visitors in Lot's household, so that they could "know" them (the Hebrew word for "know" is yada [ידע], meaning intimate sexual relations).

    The word "sodomy" stems from and is forever attributed to that debased city, which was engrossed in homosexuality and sins of the like.

    Jesus affirmed the family structure of one man and one woman that His Father instituted in the Old Testament. Matthew 19: "'For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.'"

    In John 10:30, Jesus declared, "I and My Father are one"; throwing out any potential of disunity between God the Father and Jesus Christ the Son.

    Romans 1 speaks of a culture that God has given up to its lusts, much like the one we now face in Washington. That is itself a judgment from God; to allow a culture to reach the point where we are.

    Romans 1:28-30: "And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a debased mind, to do those things which are not fitting; being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil-mindedness; they are whisperers, backbiters, haters of God, violent, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things…"

    1 Corinthians 6:9-11 speaks of a group of sinners; including homosexuals; destined for destruction. However, there is a great hope that comes out of this section of Scripture for those who repent of their wickedness:

    "Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God.

    And such were some of you.

    But you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God." The great news in this passage; about a group of sinners heading to hell; is the independent clause "and such were some of you."

    I was once in that boat, just like many in the Corinthian church once were; sinners desperately in need of a Lord and Savior. God found me in the depths of my mire and depravity, rescued me, gave me a new heart, and gave me a new spirit (Ezekiel 36:26).

    Jesus can do the same for "anyone who thirsts" for this water; they may come to Him! Repent, turn from your sins, cry out begging God for mercy, and ask Jesus to save you. Turning to Jesus in true faith and repentance is how one can be washed of this sin and made a "new creation."

    The Bible says today is the day of salvation.

    This should be encouraging to anyone whose life is marked by the sins in 1 Corinthians; receive Jesus today as both Lord and Savior!