Nothing in there about a right to be a volunteer youth pastor for the state.
No need to render anything unto Caesar -- including one second of your time as a volunteer -- that is not Caesar's.
Nothing in there allows the state to infringe upon a pastor’s First Amendment guaranteed rights either.
If they wanted to hire only Wicca counselors they could. The question is whether We the People want to let it be that way.
Yeah, they’ll get exactly the kind of “it’s all good” pastors they’re looking for along with all the troubles that accompany them.
In Torcaso v. Watkins, 367 U.S. 488 (1961) the Supreme Court "reaffirmed that the United States Constitution prohibits States and the Federal Government from requiring any kind of religious test for public office, in the specific case, as a notary public.".
I do believe the youth pastors have a basis for a federal civil rights lawsuit which the state will lose.
And since when does the state have a right to take a religious (or irreligious) position for or against homosexuality?
And who is “the state?” Do the people of Kentucky thing THEIR state government, who works for them, is prohibiting the free exercise of religion? Seriously man, this is why we have a first amendment.
Exactly, which is why they should all quit.
That's serve the state of KY (snicker...) right.
But there is this in Article VI:
... but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States. (emphasis added)and there is this little item in the Fourteenth Amendment that the left loves to stretch beyond recognition to suit their own priorities:
No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States;...
"volunteer youth pastor for the state" would be a public trust, so this religious test to exclude pastors from this public trust based on their religious belief is therefore clearly a violation of the Constitution. Furthermore, if the state is abridging the privileges or immunities of these pastors by excluding them due to their religious beliefs, the state's action is clearly a violation of the 14th Amendment.