“there will be a lot of Catholic priests in trouble.....exercising their 1st amendment rights.”
The government officials would not start by going after the Catholic Church for standing up for their doctrine and not performing gay marriages.
Instead, the government goes after the less powerful Hitching Post Church Wedding Chapel. I’m guessing that the Hitching Post does not quite have financial resources of the Roman Catholic Church and that makes the Hitching Post Church a prime target for the government in a court of law.
So they’re the cowards we know them to be. Nothing new here.