[Mrs. Don-o]

I'm assuming that you know that, according to God, fornication is a sin? Doesn't matter if the youth pastor put the moves on a good-looking girl or a good-looking boy.

Plus, as a "pastor" he was in a position of spiritual trust or authority, and he abused that by making sex a perk associated with his, ahem, ministry.

The ages don't matter. If he was 39 and she was 42, it's still fornication.

Courtship, it is not.

[Mr Rogers]

Agreed. Age of consent doesn’t matter if it is sex outside of marriage. It is still sin according to the Bible.

Doesn’t mean the guy couldn’t have changed and NOW be a good pastor. The list of sinless pastors is pretty short.