“I will not be issuing an order from the bench today,” Monroe County Circuit Judge Luis Garcia said as he opened the hearing for summary judgment in Florida’s latest same-sex marriage case. Key West bartenders Aaron Huntsman and William Lee Jones had hoped to marry immediately following any ruling. Together for 11 years, Huntsman and Jones, who met at a gay pride celebration, sued Monroe County Clerk Amy Heavilin in April for the right to receive a marriage license.

A similar suit has been filed in Miami-Dade County. In that case, six same-sex couples and the LGBT advocacy group Equality Florida Institute sued County Clerk Harvey Ruvin for the right to marry.

Adam Tanenbaum, Florida’s Assistant Attorney General is defending both cases, and just as he said last week before Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Sarah Zabel, Tanenbaum advised Garcia that he cannot dismiss Florida’s constitutional gay marriage ban, decided in 2008 by 62 percent of the voters.

“It remains for this court simply to respect the policy decision made by voters,” Tanenbaum told Garcia.