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A person shall not be required to solemnize a marriage if the person has an objection to solemnizing the marriage based on the person’s conscience or religious beliefs.

Nine years later, when the United Kingdom allowed same-sex couples to solemnize their marriages in religious ceremonies, Ortega-Medina and his husband married in a Jewish ceremony at West London Synagogue.

He brought up a recent bill passed in the Tennessee House of Representatives that would give county clerks the right to refuse to solemnize marriages they don’t personally believe in.

They lured religious leaders out of their homes by pretending to need a marriage solemnized.

The bill states that “a person shall not be required to solemnize a marriage if the person has an objection to solemnizing the marriage based on the person’s conscience or religious beliefs.”