US District Judge Robert Hinkle did not like that state officials regard the marriage law as non-existent, especially because he is the judge who had changed it to allow marriage equality.

Indeed, Judge Hinkle had repealed the marriage protection law in August 2014 and his decision was to take effect in January 2015.

So he decided to regard this attempt by state officials in a movement they called "for a history of resistance against same-sex marriage" as totally unconstitutional.

We will have hoped to the end that the Governor of Mississippi does as governor of Georgia and of Virginia and is opposed to the religious freedom law. Unfortunately, that was not the case since  Governor Phil Bryant signed the House Bill 1523 into law.