HUNTINGTON, WV -
History was made Thursday, October 9 at the Cabell County Courthouse in Huntington, West Virginia with the first ever same-sex marriage in the state.
Casie McGee and Sarah Adkins got their marriage license from the county clerk, walked outside to the Cabell County Courthouse steps and got married.
Will Glavaris and Justin Murdock were the first couple in the courthouse to get a marriage license. Murdock said the process became surreal to him.
"I think when she read the oath to us at the end and she said 'by the laws of the state of West Virginia,' that really hit me," Murdock said. "That's what it's been all about. Just getting those laws changed."
Both couples said they have been waiting years for this day, and not just for themselves.
"It hasn't really sunk in," Murdock said. "We've been fighting and fighting and fighting for this, and this is victory. Maybe when we're standing there getting married it will sink in."
The couples went to courthouses in Cabell and Kanawha counties just hours after State Attorney General Patrick Morrisey and Governor Earl Ray Tomblin both issued statements saying they would not fight same-sex marriage after higher courts ruled same-sex marriage bans unconstitutional.
Cabell County clerk Karen Cole said her office was ready with all the paper work to make sure the first two same-sex marriages were legal and proper.
County clerks in Woods, Nicolas and Braxton county also said they would issue same-sex marriage licenses but haven't yet, while many other counties said they would as soon as they received the right paperwork.
The Kanawha County Commission also voted to extend insurance coverage to same-sex spouses of county employees.
