A wedding chapel in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, is suing for the right to refuse to marry gay couples. However, the newly-legalized state currently offers no such right to these businesses.

These Christian wedding chapels are privately owned businesses, not actual religious chapels, with ordained ministers performing marriage ceremonies. With recent strike downs of marriage bans for same-sex couples at the federal court level, the application of these new policies is unchartered territory for Idaho.

Gov. C. L. "Butch" Otter even said after last week's judicial ruling that his state is not anti-gay, but instead "pro-traditional marriage."

In this instance, Coeur d'Alene's city officials were reportedly requiring the Hitching Post Lakeside Chapel to officiate gay marriages. After a same-sex couple asked to be married at the chapel, owners Evelyn and Donald Knapp refused the couple. The Knapps then filed a federal lawsuit against the city's non-discrimination law.

While state and federal regulation do make exemptions for religious institutions to perform gay marriages, the Hitching Post Lakeside Chapel would not be covered under this loophole. It is technically not a church, but instead a "for-profit religious corporation."

This type of language was part of the Hobby Lobby ruling, which will likely be the case that the Knapp's lawsuit leans on. However, Justice Alito wrote in that ruling that this does not "provide a shield for employers who might cloak illegal discrimination as a religious practice."

At this point, Coeur d'Alene is not actually forcing the Hitching Post Lakeside Chapel to officiate these same-sex weddings, according to the Daily Beast.

The Idaho State Journal reported that "pastors, priests, rabbis and Muslim clerics ... are on firm legal ground if they say 'I don't' to gay, lesbian, transgender and bisexual couples who want to say 'I do.'" However, the waters are muddied as to the classification of the chapel within the religious institution realm.