They took my year's pay for speaking the truth. I won’t let them take our city.

Sodom and Gomorrah fell because corruption went unchecked, leaders ignored justice, and truth was silenced.

Pickering is walking that same path.

In this modern Sodom and Gomorrah, I’ve been punished not for wrongdoing, but for daring to speak the truth. I have been targeted for having morals, for holding integrity, for exposing corruption, sexual harassment, and threats, losing a full year's salary for refusing to stay silent in the face of threats. For speaking truth to power in a City where vice is rewarded and virtue is attacked.

The Bible warns in Genesis 19 what happens when a city’s moral compass is lost. Will we learn from history, or repeat it?