The issue focused on the 2009 Virginia Supreme Court decision in which the court refused to allow a marriage to be performed on the basis of a Supreme Court decision that said that a law against gay marriage was unconstitutional. This has been a running theme in the past few years, as a number of states have passed laws that would force religious institutions to perform gay marriages on the basis of this case. 
 
 In that case, the court held that the law was inconsistent with the First Amendment and that the government may not require a church to perform a