Cboldt wrote:
“... SCOTUS order doesn’t affect pastors in the least. It affects only those in the government who issue marriage licenses.”
My concern is that the ruling will be used as a basis for further lawsuits; suits that will hit at those performing the ceremony itself.
They have already gone after wedding-related people such as bakers and florists.
That will no doubt happen.
The courts have always put the law in a superior position over the exercise of religion, but seeing as how the state is able to fully perform marriage according to its terms, nobody is deprived if the church turns them away.
Now, that's the logical and legal answer, but the law is not bound to adhere to logic and morality. Law is about brute force. Whatever the judge orders will be "the law," for what it is worth. And then the pastors will have to decide between observing the law, or not.