The California Supreme Court received a request from legal groups that are against same sex marriage to delay its decision to make the gay marriage legal in the state of California.

The Arizona-based Alliance Defense Fund along with the Proposition 22 Legal Defense Fund and other similar legal groups requested on Thursday afternoon that the Supreme Court’s decision should be delayed until after the November elections, when it’s highly possible that the California voters will decide a proposed constitutional amendment to bar marriage to gay couples.

According to the court papers submitted by the legal groups, by allowing same-sex marriage before the November ballot the court risks “legal havoc," The Associated Press reported.

"Permitting this decision to take effect immediately risks legal havoc and uncertainty of immeasurable magnitude," the group wrote in the filing.

The Supreme Court is expected to file a legal response next week.

San Francisco City Attorney would fight any delay in issuing the marriage certificates to same-sex spouses, said spokesman Dennis Herrera.

The proposed gay-marriage limitation hasn’t been put on the November ballot yet, but the groups backing the measure already obtained 1.1 million signatures, much more than needed to be handed over to election officials.

If the Supreme Court’s decision isn’t delayed, the gay couples will be able to legally get married as early as June 16. However, one can only wonder what will happen with the same-sex couples who marry between June and November if the initiative passes.