Campaign for Southern Equality v. Phil Brya

JAMES E. GRAVES, JR., Circuit Judge:

By statute and constitutional provision, the State of Mississippi (“Mississippi” or “the State”) prohibits same-sex couples from marrying and does not recognize those marriages entered into by same-sex couples which have been validly performed and are recognized elsewhere (the “marriage bans” or the “bans”). See Miss. Const, art. XIV, § 263A; Miss.Code Ann. § 93-1-1(2). In October of 2014, two same sex couples, Rebecca Bickett and Andrea Sanders and Jocelyn Pritchett and Carla Webb, and the Campaign for Southern Equality, a non-profit advocacy group…