TULSA COUNTY, Oklahoma -

Despite the recent ruling that made gay marriage legal in Oklahoma, court clerks do not have to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples if it violates their personal beliefs.

That is the message from the Alliance Defending Freedom.

After an Oklahoma couple sued Tulsa County Court Clerk, Sally Howe-Smith, over her refusal to issue same-sex marriage license, lawyers with the Alliance Defending Freedom stepped in to represent Howe-Smith.

They ended up losing the case when the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear the case, allowing same-sex marriages in Oklahoma; but Howe-Smith's attorneys said her moral beliefs are still protected.

Dozens of same ex couples have said I do since the ban on gay marriage was lifted in Oklahoma.

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They are getting licenses in the very office where the Tulsa County court clerk refused to issue them and was eventually sued.

"I took an oath to follow the constitution and Oklahoma State law, so it would have been illegal for me to issue a marriage license to someone other than a man and woman, Howe-Smith said.

Now that the ban on gay marriage in Oklahoma is lifted, Howe Smith hasn't had a change of heart.

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Alliance Defending Freedom: OK Court Clerks Don't Have To Violate Beliefs