No. The law specifically excludes churches and pastors from having to perform any sort of ceremony for same-sex couples.
First step.
Not true. You need to read into the Bill.
Here is a comment from the Heritage Foundation concerning this bill: Don’t be fooled by the left’s messaging:
This bill is no exception to the left’s agenda. It too is just another radical policy being peddled by progressives.
Despite its name, the bill isn’t about marriage or respect at all. It’s about imposing the radical left’s sexual ideology as state orthodoxy.
Final passage would mean states no longer are allowed to define and recognize marriage as a legal union between a man and a woman. Instead, they would be forced to recognize any union between two individuals, regardless of sex, as marriage.
Even more radical, the bill would require federal recognition of polygamy if just one state requires it.
By radically redefining marriage and eviscerating states’ rights, the bill would transform matters of disagreement—even on the basis of deeply and sincerely held religious belief—into discrimination.
Those who refuse to submit—whether states, government officials, or any the U.S. attorney general deems to be “acting under the color of State law”—would be punished for their beliefs.
Despite what advocates might say, similar laws elsewhere have been weaponized to punish dissenters. As they have done with dissenters before, radical leftists would use this law to ensure yet a more total compliance with their ideology.
Ultimately, enactment of HR 8404 would destabilize essential pillars of American society: family and religion.[1]
https://newswithviews.com/democrats-respect-for-marriage-act-scam/