Washington, DC – A decade after the milestone of the Supreme Court Obergefell c. Hodges The decision declared homosexual marriage a national law in the United States, 68% of Americans support it.
Since 2021, the percentage of American adults who think that weddings between same -sex couples should be recognized with the same rights as traditional weddings varied from 68% to 71% (the trend high in 2022 and 2023). However, this stability in the support of Americans for homosexual wedding masks moves the opinions of supporters over the same period. The support of democrats increased to 88%, the record for this group of a percentage point. Independent support for homosexual marriage has been relatively stable in recent years and is currently 76%, a point of higher record.
At the same time, the support of the Republicans, who culminated at 55% in 2021 and 2022, gradually dropped to 41%, the lowest point since 2016 after the Obergefell decision.
The current gap of 47 points between the Republicans and the Democrats has been the most important since Gallup began to follow this measure 29 years ago.
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Public support for legalized homosexual marriage was low during the first reading of Gallup in 1996, with 27% of the support of the Americans. In 2004, 42% were in favor and in 2011, support reached the majority level for the first time, where it has remained since the end of 2012. A year after the Obergefell The decision, in 2016, public support increased to 61%, and has been higher than this level since.
Throughout the trend, Democrats were more favorable than the Republicans of the same -sex unions, the opinions of the independents closer to the Democrats. ” More than half of the Democrats have supported legal recognition of same -sex unions since 2004, and the self -employed since 2011. The support of the two groups has since extended to larger majorities. Republican support only reached the majority level twice, with 55% of readings in 2021 and 2022. It has since been down.
The coherent majority of us adults say that homosexual relationships are morally acceptable
The survey of values and beliefs from May 1 to 18 of Gallup also notes that 64% of Americans consider that homosexual or lesbian relations are morally acceptable. This is the third identical reading in as many years and is down from the culmination of the trend, 71%, in 2022. The majority of Americans considered homosexual relations morally acceptable since 2010.
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 Democrats and Republicans has widened to its greatest point. Currently, 86% of Democrats (a new summit at a point) and 38% of Republicans (the lowest reading for the group since 2012) claim that homosexual or lesbian relations are morally acceptable. After reaching a 56% summit in 2022, the opinions of republicans on homosexual and morally acceptable relations have regularly decreased.
The opinions of the self -employed of homosexual or lesbian relations, as morally acceptable, have been closer to the Democrats during the trend, but they have been more stable in recent years than the Democrats and the Republicans. ” The last survey finds that 69% of the self -employed saying that homosexual relations are morally acceptable.
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Majorities in most demographic subgroups for homosexual marriage, relations
The majority of American adults in most demographic subgroups believe that homosexual marriage should be legal and say that homosexual relations are morally acceptable. However, those who attend religious services at least every week – a more republican group – are an exception. A third of these frequent faithful support homosexual marriage, while 24% of them consider homosexual or lesbian relations as morally acceptable.
In addition, opinions on homosexual marriage and the morality of homosexual relations vary according to sex, age and education, with women, young adults and more favorable university graduates than men, older Americans and those without university degree.
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Ten years after the Supreme Court established homosexual marriage as constitutional law, national support remains solid and stable at 68%. However, this ostensible stability masks deepen the partisan divisions. Although the support of Democrats and the self -employed continues to increase or keep regularly, the support of the Republicans – who initially increased in the years that followed the Obergefell Decision – has dropped each of the last three years. The moral acceptability of homosexual relationships shows a similar model.
Despite the stable national support for marriage and homosexual relations, the extended political fracture suggests potential vulnerabilities in the sustainability of LGBTQ +rights. In 2022, judge of the Supreme Court Clarence Thomas wrote in his competitive opinion in the Dobbs c. Jackson Women’s Health Organization Decision that the High Court “should reconsider” its past decisions, including those on homosexual relations and marriage. Since then, republican legislators in certain states have introduced resolutions asking the Supreme Court to overthrow Obergefell. During his second term, President Donald Trump implemented policies that considerably release LGBTQ +protections, affecting transgender persons in particular. These events suggest that homosexual marriage in the United States could face renewed legal and political challenges.
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