States Pushing Back on Court's Ruling.
TAPPER: Welcome back to THE LEAD. Today's politics lead: if you thought that the U.S. Supreme Court ruling declaring same-sex bans to be unconstitutional would end the debate -- well, you were wrong. Some states counties and parishes are now pushing back against the decision. The Texas attorney general blasted the ruling, calling it, quote, "lawless". And he's not alone. Judges and lawmakers in three other states are also fighting the implementation of the ruling.</s>TAPPER (voice-over): The jubilant crowds at pride parades in cities this weekend were hard to miss this weekend. Less enthusiastically some stalwart states that had upheld same sex marriage bans accepted the ruling.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Frankly, our reaction to the decision is one of disappointment.</s>TAPPER: But a nation that was divided before Friday's ruling is not all rainbows and kisses today. Counties continue to oppose same sex marriage, citing conflicting state laws, religious freedom, and even paperwork issues. In Mississippi, state officials say not so fast. The right to wed will have to wait for a lower court's approval, despite the decision by the nation's highest judges. Governor Phil Bryant added that the new marriage standards, quote, "are certainly out of the step with the majority of Mississippians. In Louisiana, a 25-day waiting period is now being suggested for county clerks before they begin issuing marriage licenses. Attorney General James Caldwell, wrote, "There is not yet a legal requirement for his states to issue them." In Alabama, same sex couples are tying the knot in Montgomery, but in some more rural counties, licenses have been halted for all couples, the only way around the Supreme Court's decree. Voters around the country have repeatedly rejected same-sex marriage when it's been put to a vote, but courts have ruled in the opposite direction, and polls indicate that there has been a sea change in public opinion on the issue in recent years.</s>BRIAN POWELL, SOCIOLOGY PROFESSOR, UNIVERSITY OF INDIANA: Right now, more people are in support of same-sex marriage than the percentage of people who voted for Reagan in 1984.</s>TAPPER: Professor Brian Powell has been studying same sex marriage trends for years, and he predicts pushback will not last long.</s>POWELL: Today, people who in Mississippi, in Louisiana, in the South where opposition is still the greatest, there support of same sex marriage is on par where other states were just a few years ago.</s>TAPPER: Many holdout counties and clerks are putting religious liberty front and center. In Texas, Attorney General Ken Paxton has told officials they do not have to uphold the new Supreme Court ruling, writing, quote, "The reach of the court's opinion stops at the door of the First Amendment, and our laws protecting religious liberty." In Harris County, Texas, Friday the clerk says he simply didn't have the correct application forms for those first in line to get hitched.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: If you go look at the current form, it says man and woman on the side of it. And it's got some fields that are specific to like maiden names.</s>TAPPER: Interestingly, Powell says coverage of the debate over same- sex marriage is what will lead to more acceptance of it, even in the pockets pushing back.</s>POWELL: What happens is people are basically getting used to the idea, and then they're getting more comfortable with the idea. And so, they're shifting their view from "why should that happen" to "why not"?</s>TAPPER: Another day, another American arrested for potential ties to the terrorist ISIS. That along with new images of deadly terror around the world have leaders here in the U.S. on alert, especially with the July 4th holiday ahead. One CIA insider is talking bluntly about what could happen given what he knows. Stay with us.