The Supreme Court of Costa Rica has ruled that the nation’s same sex marriage ban is discriminatory and unconstitutional.

The Supreme court’s verdict gives the nation’s officials a period a year and a half to change the present law.

The president respected the verdict, saying he needs to ensure “no person will face discrimination for their sexual orientation”.

However, numerous officials are evangelicals who emphatically are against same sex marriages.

Fernando Castillo, a Supreme Court judge, told in a press conference on Wednesday that the ban will naturally stop to lawfully exist in year and a half, regardless of whether no move is made by the governing body.

The administrative chamber has 57 seats, out of which 14 seats are held by evangelical individuals.

Late Wednesday’s decision consents to a judgment issued in January by the Inter-American Human Rights Court that said same-sex marriage ought to be perceived by the greater part of its signatory individuals.

The nation’s first openly gay official, Enrique Sanchez, revealed to AFP that he didn’t believe the assembly would work out a law change between themselves.

He is an individual from the Citizen Action Party, driven by President Carlos Alvarado who came to control on a professional LGBT platform.

President Alvarado is a former novelist and a rock singer, who won the presidential run-off in April following a huge campaign where LGBT rights turned into a key issue.

Fabricio Alvarado, an evangelical pastor rival, who promised to resist the Human Rights Court’s decisions on same-sex rights, was defeated by President Alvarado.