A Christian minister is suing the state of Kentucky after being prevented from telling LGBT youth they are going to hell while volunteering at a juvenile detention center.

According to reports, Minister David Wells refused to comply with a Kentucky Department of Juvenile Justice policy that prohibits anti-gay comments to youths at the state’s juvenile detention centers.

Wells told state officials he couldn’t comply with their April 2014 anti-discrimination policy requiring “fair and equal treatment without bias” for “lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning and intersex juveniles” because of his “sincerely held religious beliefs.”

In his lawsuit, Wells is accusing the Warren County Regional Juvenile Detention Center of taking “blatantly unconstitutional” action after officials revoked his volunteer prison status over his refusal to comply with the LGBT policy that was put into place last year.

Wells is represented by the powerful and ultra-conservative Liberty Counsel, which specializes in promoting discrimination against LGBT people under the pretense of religious liberty.

In a letter to to the Kentucky Department of Juvenile Justice, a representative of the Liberty Counsel claims Wells was barred from the Warren County Regional Juvenile Detention Center “because he could not sign a state-mandated statement that homosexuality was not ‘sinful,’ among other things.”

The regulations that Wells refused to honor read, in part:

DJJ staff, volunteers, interns, and contractors, in the course of their work, shall not refer to juveniles by using derogatory language in a manner that conveys bias towards or hatred of the LGBTQI community. DJJ staff, volunteers, interns, and contractors shall not imply or tell LGBTQI juveniles that they are abnormal, deviant, sinful, or that they can or should change their sexual orientation or gender identity.

Nobody is denying Wells his religious liberty or his freedom of speech. Wells is free to stand in his pulpit every Sunday and explain to the faithful how LGBT youth and other supposed sinners will spend an eternity suffering.

However, Wells does not have the right to go into a juvenile detention center and harass and abuse LGBT juvenile offenders as an expression of his “sincerely held religious beliefs.”

The fact that Wells and the Liberty Counsel have launched a lawsuit to gain the right to harass and abuse youthful offenders with their ignorant religious superstitions is indicative of the moral depravity and base inhumanity prevalent among many conservative Christians.