The cost to Texas taxpayers for opposing same sex marriage: $600,000.
News Radio 1200 WOAI's Michael Board reports that's how much taxpayers have been ordered to pay to the San Antonio based law firm of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer and Feld for their representation of two men, Mark Phariss and Vic Holmes, who attempted to get married in Texas in 2015.
Phariss, who is now legally married under the U.S. Supreme Court's Obergefell ruling, is pleased with the judgement.
"Our lawyers did an outstanding job," he said. "They committed about $1.5 million in legal fees and expenses to our case, and they earned every penny of it."
On the same day the U.S. Supreme Court ruled same sex marriage to be legal, U.S. District Judge Orlando Garcia in San Antonio ruled that the couple could legally marry.
The law firm says the money will go into a fund for future pro bono work.
"It's frankly a waste of taxpayer money for the state to have fought the ability of two people who loved each other to marry," Phariss said.