[caption id="attachment_210389" align="alignnone" width="536"] Federal troops were required to escort African-American students into a previously segregated school in 1957[/caption]

Are federal troops going to have to march into New Orleans?

Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal has doubled-down on his insistence that the state government will not recognize same-sex marriage yet, despite the Supreme Court's ruling last week.

Jindal initially said he wanted to wait for a lower appeals court to affirm the Supreme Court's decision. But now that the court has confirmed the SCOTUS ruling, he's demanding another court get involved.

"Our agencies will follow the Louisiana Constitution until the District Court orders us otherwise," said Gov. Jindal's spokesman, Mike Reed.

The Times-Picayune reports that the situation has created chaos, with some districts issuing licenses on their own, and others refusing to:

In Orleans Parish, the state Department of Vital Records downtown -- under the control of Jindal -- is still refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, though court clerk offices in every other parish have started doing so.

Orleans same-sex couples currently have to travel to the 2nd City Court in Algiers if they want a marriage license.

Activists and allies are understandably outraged.

"Same-sex couples have waited long enough," Equality Louisiana president Baylor Boyd. "It is time for all of our state officials and agencies to comply with the Supreme Court's ruling. Justice delayed is justice denied."

The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals officially threw out Lousiana's ban on Wednesday, and gave the District Court until until July 17 to make a new ruling.

One of the plaintiffs, 52-year-old Robert Welles, is in declining health. He and his partner, Garth Beauregard, have been together for 25 years.

"I wait every day for a phone call," says Welles. "The way I see it, we started this thing in New Orleans, and we want to finish it in New Orleans."