The nation’s top court said on Friday that the USA Constitution provides same-sex couples the right to Wednesday, handing a victory to the American gay rights movement.

“Justices of the peace and judges similarly retain religious freedoms and may claim that the government can not force them to conduct same-sex wedding ceremonies over their religious objections”, Paxton wrote.

The court gave the losing side about three weeks to seek reconsideration. He said it only “ensures that individuals doing business with the state can not be discriminated against due to their religious beliefs”.

He continued, “County clerks and their employees retain religious freedoms that may allow accommodation of their religious objections to issuing same-sex marriage licenses”.

Still, same-sex couples did receive marriage licenses Friday in the state’s biggest cities.

Two women were granted a marriage license in Jefferson Parish near New Orleans, according to the receptionist at the local court clerk.

Louisiana’s attorney general and the Louisiana Clerk of Courts Association have advised court clerks to wait 25 days. “This newly invented federal constitutional right to same-sex marriage should peaceably coexist alongside longstanding constitutional and statutory rights, including the rights to free exercise of religion and speech”, said Paxton in his statement.

The AP reports that in Kansas, some counties are still refusing to comply with the ruling that gay and lesbian couples can marry.

Texas was not part of the case before the Supreme Court.

” ‘In that 25-day period that (U.S. Supreme Court) order is not in effect, ‘ Moore said”. There is not, however, a court order in place in Texas to issue any particular license whatsoever - only the flawed direction by the USA Supreme Court on Constitutionality and applicable state laws.

On Sunday, Moore said that last week’s decision went against the laws of nature. “You are going to be persecuted”.

A handful of couples were married in Mississippi before the state attorney general put same-sex marriages on hold in the state until a lower court lifted a stay. A federal judge in 2013 ruled that the state’s ban on gay marriage was unconstitutional but declined to enforce the ruling while it was on appeal.