Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant
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WASHINGTON — A federal judge in Mississippi on Thursday afternoon halted enforcement of the state's ban on same-sex couples adopting children.
Citing the U.S. Supreme Court's 2015 decision ending bans on same-sex couples' marriages, U.S. District Court Judge Daniel P. Jordan III granted a preliminary injunction against the state's Department of Human Services in a case filed this past August.
Of the Supreme Court's decision, Jordan wrote, "[T]he majority opinion foreclosed litigation over laws interfering with the right to marry and 'rights and responsibilities intertwined with marriage.'"
He concluded on Thursday: "The majority of the United States Supreme Court dictates the law of the land, and lower courts are bound to follow it. In this case, that means that [the adoption ban] violates the Equal Protection Clause of the United States Constitution."
The ruling comes less than 24 hours after the state's Senate passed a far-reaching religious freedom bill that critics call one of the worst such bills in the country for LGBT people.
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