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If your beliefs prevent you from fulfilling the duties of your job, then you should probably consider changing jobs.
I disagree on this one. You believing in same sex marriage and forcing someone else to marry you isn't much different than the other way around.
A minister isn't working for someone else who has a policy on birth control or anything like that where you would have known when taking the job was selling it. They're more or less self employed/running their own business. They shouldn't be forced to do something they're against any more than someone should be forced to be straight. The government isn't banning gay marriage. They aren't saying anyone ordained isn't allowed to marry gay people. They're just saying someone who doesn't want to doesn't have to. You sure as hell know in this day and age you could find someone ordained that would marry you. Why you would even want a minister/priest/whatever who is against gay marriage to be forced to marry you instead of finding someone else seems idiotic anyhow, unless you have some childish vendetta against "them gay haters" and you just care about making some homophobe suffer over your wedding instead of just enjoying yourself on your day.
Tldnr: It seems pretty stupid to force someone to marry you against their will. How about they force you to marry straight against your will?
This law isn't about ministers or priests or anything. Those people already aren't forced to marry anyone that's against their conscious. This is about public officials, people that are hired and usually take an oath to uphold the law, the law that says gay people can marry. What if a public official refused to register someone to vote or to get a driver's license because they were black or a woman and that was against their beliefs? At that point, if those are your beliefs, maybe you need to quit that job.
Did you read the article or law? It doesn't deal with getting a marriage license. It specifies performing a wedding. Where are you getting your info from?