Record the Divide Supportance on homosexual marriage 10 years after the decision
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Ten years after the Supreme Court legalized homosexual marriage nationally, most Americans support the decision of Obergefell v. HOLS High Court.
However, the last national survey on the issue indicates that there is now a fracture of record supporters on the support of legalization homosexual marriage.
Ten years ago, the United States became the 17th nation in the world to legally recognize homosexual marriage. According to the US Census Bureau, more than three -quarters of a million same -sex couples are now married across the country.
The case focused on the question of whether state prohibitions on homosexual marriage have violated the fourteenth amendment to the American Constitution. The court’s decision, which said that the right to marry is a fundamental right guaranteed to same -sex couples, has canceled these existing state bans on homosexual marriage.
It has been 10 years that a decision of the Supreme Court legalized homosexual marriage on a national scale. (AP photo / J. Scott Applewhite, file)
According to Gallup, sixty percent of American adults supported homosexual marriage in May 2015, a month before the historic decision of the Supreme Court.
A decade later, A Gallup survey This was led from May 1 to 18 indicated that the support of adults at the national level is now 68%.
Gallup noted that support has oscillated between 68% and 71% since 2021, but Gallup stressed that “this stability in the support of Americans for homosexual wedding masks change in the opinions of partisans over the same period”.
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The support of democrats at homosexual marriage is now 88%, a record and support among the independents of the country is 76%, just less than a record for the Gallup survey.
However, republican support flowed at 41%, against 55% earlier this decade. Gallup noted that the support of the GOP of homosexual marriage has been at the “lowest point since 2016 after Obergefell’s decision”.
Ikeita Cantu, on the left, and his wife Carmen Guzman, of McLean, in Virginia, hold signs as they celebrate outside the Supreme Court in Washington, DC, Friday, June 26, 2015, after the court said that the same sex couples have the right to get married everywhere in the United States (AP photo / Jacquelyn Martin)
In a separate question, the Gallup survey indicated that a little less than two -thirds of the Americans (64%) considered homosexual or morally acceptable relationships. It is down compared to a high point of 71% three years ago.
“As with their opinions on homosexual marriage, the attitudes of supporters have changed in opposite directions in recent years, and the gap between the acceptance of the Democrats and the Republicans has widened to its greatest point,” said Gallup.
Eighty -six percent of the Democrats – which is a new survey in Gallup – said that homosexual or lesbian relations are morally acceptable. Seventy-nine percent of the self-employed agreed.
However, only 38% of Republicans said that homosexual or lesbian relations are morally acceptable, their lowest level since 2012.
The same -sex couples line up to receive wedding licenses at the office of the City of Manhattan in New York. (Photo / jason decrow)
The enlargement of the partisan division on the support of homosexual marriage comes while certain conservatives called on the High Court to cancel the decision of Obergefell v. Hodges.
Judge of the Supreme Court Clarence Thomas wrote in an opinion in 2022 that judges “should reconsider” past decisions, including the 2015 decision legalizing homosexual marriage.
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Since then, conservative legislators of certain states have introduced resolutions asking the Supreme Court to cancel its historic decision.
In addition, last week, the Southern Baptist Convention, the largest Protestant name in the country, adopted a resolution which partially calls for the reversal of the High Court decision.
