Since when does your religous beliefs allow you to disobey Federal Law?

Since when can you refuse to do part of your job, because it goes against you religious beliefs?  I really don't understand how this can be lawfully done, but then Texas is it's own country and don't have to abide by Federal laws, I guess.

They are there to take advantage of all the benefits the Federal Government offers, but when it comes down to obeying all Federal Laws, I guess they don't have to obey them, because it goes against their religious beliefs.

The state's attorney general said that while the Supreme Court justices had "fabricated" a new constitutional right, they did not diminish, overrule, or call into question the First Amendment rights to free exercise of religion.

"County clerks and their employees retain religious freedoms that may allow accommodation of their religious objections to issuing same-sex marriage licenses," Paxton wrote, adding that the strength of any such claim would depend on the facts of each case.

"Justices of the peace and judges similarly retain religious freedoms and may claim that the government cannot force them to conduct same-sex wedding ceremonies over their religious objections," Paxton wrote.

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