Record Party Divide 10 Years After Same-Sex Marriage Ruling

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Republican support has dropped 14 points since 2022

WASHINGTON, D.C. — A decade after the Supreme Court’s milestone Obergefell v. Hodges ruling declared same-sex marriage a national right in the U.S., a steady 68% of Americans support it.

Since 2021, the percentage of U.S. adults who think marriages between same-sex couples should be recognized with the same rights as traditional marriages has ranged from 68% to 71% (the trend high in 2022 and 2023). Yet, this stability in Americans’ backing for same-sex marriage masks shifts in partisans’ views over the same period. Democrats’ support has risen to 88%, the record high for this group by one percentage point. Independents’ backing for same-sex marriage has been relatively stable in recent years and currently stands at 76%, one point shy of the record high.

At the same time, Republicans’ support, which peaked at 55% in 2021 and 2022, has gradually edged down to 41%, the lowest point since 2016 after the Obergefell decision.

The current 47-point gap between Republicans and Democrats is the largest since Gallup first began tracking this measure 29 years ago.

https://news.gallup.com/poll/691139/record-party-divide-years-sex-marriage-ruling.aspx

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1. Sometimes things are obvious

Republicans have been on trajectory of hatred since at least Reagan's presidency.

[Wounded Bear]

7. Deeper than that, but at least since Johnson...

when the National Democratic Party abandoned the Dixiecrats and all the racists congregated in the Republican Party.

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2. republican xtians worship a prostitute loving serial adulterer. there's that nt

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3. What do you expect when one party has made

Everything including personal freedom into a wedge issue.

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6. It's exactly what I expect.

The Republican party agenda is not only a class war. It's an agenda to make sure that only white, straight, christian males make gains or are benefited.

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4. I wish they would break down these silly polls by income bracket and assets

instead of just political affiliation. Republicans see no reason to divorce, have an abortion because they have so much money. I'm have no idea what income has to do with same-sex marriage but we'll never know if they don't ask.

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5. There is a link at the bottom of the article to view the crosstabs.

The higher the education and the higher the income, the more acceptance.

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10. here

https://news.gallup.com/file/poll/691151/Same-Sex%20Marriage%20and%20Morality%20Topline%20and%20Tabs_2025_05_29.pdf

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8. It is only a matter of time before anti-marriage equality cases are pipelined to the SC.

Should it go before the current SC, then marriage equality will be struck down. While there is a law that Biden signed which protect current marriages and future marriages in states where it is protected, it will be another Roe V Wade disaster in terms of personal freedoms.

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9. Yeah.

Clarence Thomas basically asked for a case to be brought to him.