The last week of June this year was a legendary period in the United States. The Supreme Court ruled gay marriage as legal and “love won” after years of battles for acceptance of same-sex marriage, or so we thought.

Four states have fought this legislation from the beginning. They just couldn’t accept defeat and grant the LGBT community the equality they deserve. Texas, Alabama, Louisiana and Kansas have used temporary laws to prolong and stall the legislation within their states. This is petty and is using technicalities to work in their advantage.

What sparked my attention initially about this issue was Alabama’s reaction to this ruling. Within days, their state Supreme Court released an order that attempted to delay marriage licenses from being given to same-sex couples for another 25 days. This appeared as pathetic to me as it seemed to so many of the counties in Alabama who chose to ignore it. As Alabama tried to ban gay marriage it lead to a flurry of new attempts from the other three states that are attempting to contest the new law.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton released an order saying that those who work for the state can refuse to give marriage licenses to same-sex couples if doing so violates their religious beliefs. This statement was yet another ploy to stall the inevitable and fight the rights that have been granted to homosexual people.

Louisiana’s Clerk Association wanted to wait three weeks to re-hear the case, while several politicians have spoken against it in speeches directly after the ruling. Numerous counties in Kansas are also refusing to grant marriage licenses to gay couples and want to rehear the case.

Much of these states rejection is due to many people’s literal interpretation of the bible, which says marriage should be between a man and a woman. But by forcing their religious views on people who have different ideas, they’re going against what the United States supposedly embraces: separation of Church and State, and freedom to choose.

The United States markets itself as the land of the free, a melting pot for race, culture and religion, but really we’re obsessing over the Bible. We market ourselves as a place of religious freedom, but can’t actually follow those ideals. We’re being hypocritical. We sound like a theocracy, which makes us no better than the ultra conservative religious communities around the world that we condemn and shame.

A separation of church and state is supposedly what our country abides by when making decisions in order to prevent bias and discrimination. But when we truly look, the LGBT community is fighting against millions of religious crusaders that cannot take defeat or stop their eye rolling at anything that is different in this world then what is on the scripture in front of them in church.