WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A Wichita church has married 14 gay and lesbian couples on the steps of a historic courthouse building downtown.

About 100 people attended the ceremony Monday evening by the First Metropolitan Community Church outside the old Sedgwick County courthouse.

Among the couples were Scott and Raymond Tholl (TOLL) of Wichita, who’ve been together 12 years.

Scott Tholl said they wanted to be part of something historic.

The ceremony was briefly interrupted by a heckler who shouted, “God said, ‘No.'” Several men removed the heckler and the crowd shouted, “God said, ‘Yes.”

The ceremony came less than a week after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a request from the state to continue enforcing its ban on gay marriage while a lawsuit challenging it is reviewed by the federal courts.