Less than two weeks after a South Florida judge ruled against Florida's same-sex marriage ban, another judge followed suit, declaring same-sex couples should be allowed to marry.

But that doesn't necessarily mean same-sex couples will be able to marry anytime soon.

Right after these two judges released their decisions Attorney General Pam Bondi filed an appeal motion; which automatically puts everything on pause until a higher court makes a final decision.

But activists both for and against same-sex marriage have said they plan on following through until the very end.

“We are about to head to the appellate level and we think we will win there. If we have to take it to the Florida Supreme court then we will and we expect that we will win on that level as well,” said Michael Farmer, spokesman for Equality Florida.

At the court of appeals Attorney General Pam Bondi will make a case as to why Judge Luis Garcia and Judge Sarah Zabel were wrong in ruling Florida’s ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional.
Floridians voted to pass this marriage definition back in 2008. It states “marriage is the legal union of only one man and one woman.”

A definition some activists think needs to change.

“Sooner rather than later we are going to get a court ruling that legalizes the right for couples to marry each other who are in a loving and committed relationships statewide,” said Farmer.

But opponents say a trial court judge doesn’t have the right to overturn an amendment Floridians have voted on themselves.

The Florida Family Policy Council’s President, John Stemberger issued a statement Friday that said in part, “It is fiction to think that Florida’s marriage laws have somehow been declared finally unconstitutional by the local rulings of mere local trial judges.”