UPDATED: First Same-Sex Couple Marries In Texas (Video And Photos)

A same-sex couple in Texas has married after a county judge struck down the state’s marriage ban. Video and photos.

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On Tuesday, Travis County Probate Judge Guy Herman ruled Texas’ ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional, in a heartbreaking case involving a couple, one of whom died of cancer months earlier.

Today, after sorting out legal issues, two women were allowed to marry under the judge’s ruling.

Suzanne Bryant and Sarah Goodfriend, together over thirty years, married in the same courthouse that had denied them a license years earlier. Rabbi Kerry Baker officiated.  State District Judge David Wahlberg ordered Travis County Clerk Dana DeBeauvoir to issue the license.

“Given the urgency and other circumstances in this case,” the Statesman reports Wahlberg’s order reads, “and the ongoing violation of plaintiffs’ rights, the court has concluded that good cause exists” to allow the marriage.

No other marriage licenses for same-sex couples will be issued as of now, as the order applied only to this couple.

 

UPDATE I – 11:49 AM EST:

 

Image by Chuck Lindell via Twitter