Texas Atttorney General Ken Paxton said yesterday that county clerks in Texas who object to gay marriage can refuse to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, despite last week's landmark U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) ruling requiring states to allow same-sex marriage, the Religion News website reports today (June 29, 2015).
The nation's top court said on June 26 that the U.S. Constitution provides same-sex couples the right to wed, handing a victory to the American gay rights movement.
Paxton said in a statement that hundreds of public officials in Texas were seeking guidance on how to implement what he called a lawless and flawed decision by an "activist" court.
The state's attorney general said that while the Supreme Court justices had "fabricated" a new constitutional right, they did not diminish, overrule, or call into question the First Amendment rights to free exercise of religion.
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