After resisting the US Supreme Court's ruling on marriage equality, Indian-origin Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal's administration has finally agreed to recognise same-sex marriages.
Jindal has been relentlessly resisting the Supreme Court's historic decision that made same-sex marriage legal in every US state.
Yesterday, the federal trial court in New Orleans released a ruling that ended Jindal's nearly week-long effort to hold out.
US District Judge Martin Feldman officially struck down the state's same-sex marriage ban and directed all state agencies in Louisiana to recognise gay marriage, the Huffington Post reported.
Jindal's administration finally relented and agreed to abide by the ruling.
While most of the remaining states with gay marriage bans immediately began issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples last Friday, the day of the Supreme Court ruling, state officials in Louisiana looked for ways to postpone the inevitable.
Jindal himself took a particularly extreme stance.
Last Friday, the 2016 presidential hopeful denounced the Supreme Court and suggested it would be better to just disband the nation's highest court.
Jindal argued that he wanted to wait until a lower court applied the Supreme Court's decision to Louisiana. On Wednesday, the US Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit formally overturned Louisiana's gay marriage ban, seemingly giving Jindal the go-ahead.
But the governor persisted in his stall, releasing a statement indicating that he would wait for a ruling from the US District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana.
