US EditionPartisan divide on same-sex marriage largest in almost 30 years: Gallup
- The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Obergefell v. Hodges on June 26, 2015, that same-sex marriage is a constitutional right nationwide.
- This ruling followed decades of recognition that marriage embodies society's highest ideals and guarantees equal dignity under the Constitution's due process clause.
- Recent Gallup polls show national support at 68%, with Democratic backing reaching a record 88%, Republican support dropping to 41%, and independents stable near 76%.
- Gallup reported this 47-point partisan gap, the widest in 29 years, as Republican opposition grows amid political efforts to challenge LGBTQ+ rights legally and legislatively.
- These trends suggest possible renewed challenges to same-sex marriage protections, despite sustained overall public support and the landmark 2015 Supreme Court decision.
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Support for gay marriage trending downward, with Republican support polling at lowest since 2016
Republican support for gay marriage hit its lowest point in nearly a decade while Democrat support has never been higher.In a new Gallup poll, Americans were asked if they thought "marriages between same-sex couples" should be recognized by law, with the same rights as traditional marriages. Only 41% of Republicans thought they should be, while a whopping 88% of Democrats said the marriages should be legal.'Conservativism should begin with uphol…
Support For Gay Marriage Plummets Among Republicans: Gallup Poll
Support among Republicans for gay marriage has plummeted in the last three years, according to a new Gallup poll.Gallup’s poll released on Thursday found 41% of GOP voters support gay marriage, as opposed to 55% in 2021 and 2022. A whopping 88% of Democrats approved of gay marriage in the new poll; the 47-point gap between the two parties is the largest since Gallup first asked the question in 1996. Seventy-six percent of independents approve of…
The Advocate's John Casey reflects on a decade of marriage equality in new book
When I began working on LOVE: The Heroic Stories of Marriage Equality, I didn’t fully realize that the book would become a time capsule, not just of a movement, but of heart, courage, and quiet revolution. I knew my co-author, queer creative Frankie Frankeny, and I were telling stories of people who had fought for the right to marry, but what I discovered along the way is that we were also capturing the essence of love at its most defiant and mo…
Major shift in GOP views on same-sex marriage: report
A decade after the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark ruling affirming that the Constitution guarantees same-sex couples the same rights and responsibilities of marriage as different-sex couples, public support for marriage equality remains robust at 68 percent—ten points higher than just a month after t...
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