Several Republican presidential candidates have come out in support of religious exemptions for those government employees who oppose issuing same-sex marriage licenses, but New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie made it (pretty) clear that he thinks clerks should do their job regardless of whether or not they agree with it. 

"You took the job and you took the oath,” Christie told reporters after a town hall Wednesday. "When you go back and re-read the oath it doesn’t give you an out. You have to do it."

Saying that as governor he must enforce laws with which he does not agree, Christie said those in the "government world" like him "kind of have to do their job, whether you agree with the law or you don't." 

However, Christie did give himself a little wiggle room on the issue, adding that there might be some "individual circumstances" that might warrant an exemption.

"I’m sure there are individual circumstances that might merit some examination, but none that come immediately to mind for me," he said. 

Republican presidential candidates Mike Huckabee, Ted Cruz, and Bobby Jindal have indicated that they would support exemptions for those government employees who have a conscientious objection to to same-sex marriage. Gov. Jindal, who issued an executive order in May providing protections for objecting employees, sent out a memo Monday defending those protections, while both Huckabee and Cruz have made statements defending the deeply held religious beliefs of public employees.