The U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling to make same-sex marriage legal in the United States came to no surprise to Dallas County Probate Judge Kim Ballard.

The ruling was passed 5-4 and legalizes same-sex marriage in every state, including Alabama, which was one of 14 states where same-sex couples weren’t allowed to be married statewide.

“I hoped and prayed that this would not be the ruling, but I was almost sure it would be,” Ballard said Friday. “We have to comply with it, but we don’t have to agree with it.”

Ballard said his office won’t have any choice but to issue a marriage license to a same-sex couple.

“[The ruling] means that we’ll start selling same-sex marriage licenses as soon as they furnish the materials and have everything in place to sell them if they are requested,” Ballard said.

Ballard’s office will have to issue licenses, but he will not be required to perform marriages. Ballard adopted a policy in February to stop performing all marriage ceremonies.

The Alabama Supreme Court ruled in March that same-sex marriage was illegal after a district judge ruled Alabama’s ban on same-sex marriage was unconstitutional.

“The state Supreme Court ruled that it was illegal to marry same-sex couples, and we have not,” Ballard said. “From day one we have not been presented with anybody wanting to get married, but we were told that we would have to if they came in.”

Ballard said the ruling shows that the U.S. Supreme Court doesn’t consider what the majority of Alabamians think about same-sex marriage.

“It is obvious that this state, and I can’t speak for all states, but Alabama has no rights. We voted on the Sanctity of Marriage Amendment quite a while back, and it was overwhelmingly voted in,” Ballard said.

“It says that we’ve got a very liberal supreme court, and what the majority is offended by doesn’t really matter. Moral beliefs don’t really matter to the Supreme Court.”

The state passed the Alabama Sanctity of Marriage Amendment to its constitution in 2006 by a majority vote. The amendment defined marriage as a “unique relationship between a man and a woman” and prohibited the issuance of marriage licenses to same-sex couples.

“I was hoping that the Supreme Court would have some reasoning and understanding of the situation,” he said. “Obviously they don’t care what the majority of the people in Alabama think.”

While Ballard’s office will comply with the ruling, other probate judges aren’t so quick to issue licenses to same-sex couples.

According to The Associated Press, Pike County Probate Judge Wes Allen is not issuing marriage licenses to couples whether they are opposite or same sex.

Probate judges in Birmingham, Mobile and Montgomery have started issuing licenses.