Judge awarded $640K after refusing to officiate same-sex weddings

A court has awarded a Texas justice of the peace more than $640,000 after she was disciplined for declining to officiate same-sex weddings because of her religious beliefs.

"It's a great victory for people of faith. It's important for people of faith to be able to decline to participate in things that they find that are incompatible with their religious faith," Hiram Sasser, executive general counsel for First Liberty Institute, told Fox News Digital Tuesday in an interview.

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