Screen Shot 2014-02-09 at 8.39.42 PM.jpg
Mark Phariss and Victor Holmes, who have been together more than 16 years, leave the preliminary gay marriage injunction hearing to stop the state from enforcing Texas's same-sex marriage ban in US District Judge Orlando Garcia's court room at the Federal Courthouse in San Antonio, TX, Wednesday, February 12, 2014. (JENNIFER WHITNEY for the New York Times)