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Originally Posted by Kevin
Not remotely possible.
See the First Amendment Establishment and Free Exercise clauses.
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This. Religious leaders/clergy aren't "required" to perform weddings now. They are authorized (or in some states, licensed) to perform weddings, and are fully able (as DGTess suggests) to refuse to perform a wedding if applicale religious requirements are not met.
What today's decision means is that if a state legally recognizes a marriage, the federal government cannot refuse to recognize it. So for example, if you're a legally-married same-sex couple in, say, New York, the IRS now has to let you file a joint tax return. But under the decisions today, it is still up to each state to decide whether to recognize same-sex marriages.