I agree with you. However, that was not the point of my post.
This wasn’t about pastors having freedom to say what they want in their churches. This was about state officials setting guidelines for speech within correctional facilities, which is their right.
Pastors have plenty of sin to deal with in that population.
Seems like most posters only read the misleading headline.
How about stopping the mud slinging and look at the concern, which precious few are?
Pastoral counselors were being told to sign on to a pledge to silence a definite part of the faith — or be dismissed.
It is not there right to ask for a religious person to be involved, and then to tell that religious person what religion he will practice.
They either do invite them or they don’t invite them. That’s their prerogative.
Nor are they permitted to set belief standards and pick only those who meet them.
Either of those would be 1st amendment violations.