TULSA COUNTY, Oklahoma - <\/p>\n
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. <\/p>\n
That is the message from the Alliance Defending Freedom. <\/p>\n
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. <\/p>\n
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. <\/p>\n
Dozens of same ex couples have said I do since the ban on gay marriage was lifted in Oklahoma. <\/p>\n
10\/6\/2014 Related Story: Stay Lifted: Same-Sex Marriage Now Legal In Oklahoma <\/p>\n
They are getting licenses in the very office where the Tulsa County court clerk refused to issue them and was eventually sued. <\/p>\n
\"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. <\/p>\n
Now that the ban on gay marriage in Oklahoma is lifted, Howe Smith hasn't had a change of heart. <\/p>\n
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