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CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — A judge issued the first gay marriage licens and a uple was married South Carola on Wednday, even as the state attorney general asked the U.S. Supreme Court to step and block the unns. Judge Irv Condon's office issued six licens the first 90 mut the Charlton County Probate Court office was open and one of the upl, Krist Anrson and Kayla Bent, exchanged vows outsi the office. "We want to get before they change their mds and pull the g out aga," Anrson told lol media outlets, referrg to the ongog legal battl over gay marriage. Before Wednday, same-sex upl uld marry 32 stat, parts of Kansas and Missouri, and the District of Columbia. Also Wednday, a feral judge Montana led the state's ban was unnstutnal. In South Carola, another marriage license went to Colleen Condon and her partner Nichols Bleckley, who sued the state. Rulg that se, U.S. District Judge Richard Gergel last week threw out the same-sex marriage ban the South Carola Constutn. The 4th U.S. Circu Court of Appeals refed on Tuday to put Gergel's orr on hold. South Carola Attorney General Alan Wilson then asked Chief Jtice John Roberts of the U.S. Supreme Court to block such marriag while the state appeals, Wilson's spokman Mark Powell said. The Supreme Court did not immediately le on the requt. Attorney John Nichols, reprentg the probate judge, said the licens uld be issued bee of a Tuday cisn another feral se. There, U.S. District Judge J. Michelle Childs Columbia led favor of Highway Patrol Trooper Kathere Bradacs and U.S. Air Force retiree Tracie Goodw, who sued to have the state to regnize their marriage performed Washgton, D.C. Childs led the state's failure to regnize their marriage was unnstutnal. Last month, the U.S. Supreme Court refed to hear an appeal of a 4th Circu cisn allowg same-sex marriage Virgia, openg the way for same-sex marriag other stat. South Carola ntued to fend s same-sex marriage ban and was the only state the circu not permtg them. At that time, probate judg two South Carola unti began acceptg applitns for same-sex marriage licens. The South Carola Supreme Court quickly orred that no licens be issued before a cisn the Columbia se. On Wednday, the state's high urt lifted s stay, and said Childs' cisn rolved the se. Powell said the attorney general is reviewg Childs' orr. Warren Redman-Grs, the executive director of the Alliance for Full Acceptance, said a gay uple married New York applied Wednday Charlton to e their married name on their drivers' licens and were turned down. "I thk people are gog to keep seeg those thgs happeng," he said. "This has ramifitns for all different parts of the state."