User blog comment:Laugh in the Haze!/LOVE WINS (Well, in the US)/@comment-3122015-20150627153221/@comment-3122015-20150627155027

They actually can. The first amendment gives a religion the free exercise of religion and my church has a policy that they won't preform any gay marriages or recognize any preformed. The state I live in can preform them but my church certainly won't and the government can't make them.