Indiana State Police trooper Brian Hamilton is choosing Jesus over his job.

The 14-year veteran was terminated after a woman filed a lawsuit against the state police last week because Hamilton asked her about her faith and where she attends church during a traffic stop, ABC 6 reports.

The lawsuit, filed by the American Civil Liberties Union, is the second such complaint about the proselytizing 40-year-old trooper since 2014, and he was terminated Thursday after an internal investigation into the latest incident in January.

According to the Indianapolis Star:

The former trooper’s practices first attracted public attention in 2014, when he became the subject of a federal lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana on behalf of a woman who claimed he asked her whether she accepted Jesus Christ as her savior during a traffic stop in Union County.

The lawsuit claimed Hamilton’s alleged actions violated the woman’s First Amendment rights; the establishment clause prohibits the government from favoring one religion over another. The suit was settled, and Hamilton was warned not to question others about their religious beliefs again.

But another lawsuit, filed by the ACLU on Tuesday, claimed the lesson didn’t stick. This time, a Fayette County woman accused Hamilton of asking her whether “she had been saved” after pulling her over in January.

“When I got saved three years ago, it changed my life, and I know what you’re all doing here for and I can’t really comment on the allegations of the state police. And I was a former state trooper, but I always said after I got saved, I said I work for the state but ultimately, I’m a soldier for Jesus Christ,” Hamilton told ABC 6.

“God has used that job in the last three years what it was supposed to be meant for, and that was to spread the word to tell people when they’re hurting, the truth. Government programs cannot touch anybody, it’s the word of God that can change people.”

Hamilton didn’t seem very worried about his future.

“I’d rather follow Jesus,” he said. “I’m gonna follow what God has for me to do …. It’s his plan, he’s already ordered all my steps and I just gotta be obedient.”

Hamilton declined to discuss the details of the lawsuit when a Star reporter visited his home in Connersville. Instead, he simply smiled and said, “We’re praying about it, and we’re going from there.”

State Police Superintendent Doug Carter issued a statement about Hamilton’s termination to ABC 6.

“While all of us – citizen and police officer – enjoy the right to freedom of religion and freedom of speech, there are appropriate and proper restrictions placed on agents of the state related to their actions while engaged in their official duties,” Carter said.

“While I respect Mr. Hamilton’s religious views I am also charged to respect every citizen’s rights and the best way forward for the citizens of Indiana, and for Mr. Hamilton, was to end his employment with the state police,” the statement continued. “Making the decision to end a person’s career is not a decision I make without considerable thought. I truly wish Brian the best in his future and the ability to follow his heart.”

Amy Shaffer, a Cambridge City resident who works at a gas station near Hamilton’s church, First Baptist Church, told the Star she doesn’t think the trooper deserved to be fired.

“I laughed. I thought it was really stupid,” she said. “There’s no way he should have lost his job for that.”

“I get asked all the time, ‘Would you like to join my church?” she said. “I don’t take offense to it.”

Others, like 64-year-old Pershing resident Carl Flannery, believe the state police did the right thing.

“That’s totally out of line,” he said of Hamilton’s religious questioning during traffic stops. “He didn’t do any harm, like beat up anybody or anything else, but yet he was preaching the gospel out of turn. And he shouldn’t have been doing it, simple as that.

The Star reporter noted that Hamilton also provided a parting gift: a church pamphlet titled “God’s simple plan of salvation.”

“My Friend: I am asking you the most important question of life,” it read. “Are you saved?”