Same-sex marriage has never been more popular in the United States than it is today, according to a recent poll. According to Gallup’s annual Value and Beliefs poll – taken every year during the month of May – 71 percent of Americans claim they support marriage, besting the previous high of 70 percent recorded in 2021.When Gallup first began the poll back in 1996, only 27 percent of Amercians supported gay marriage.
Despite this dismal first poll, support for same-sex nuptials would steadily rise in the subsequent years. Even after the landmark Obergefell v.
Hodges Supreme Court decision in 2015, which legalized same-sex marriage nationwide and overturned existing bans on the practice, Gallup has continued asking the question in its Value and Beliefs poll, which examines attitudes on a multitude of topics dealing with religion, church attendance, and moral issues.
Since June 2015, the number of people who claim they support same-sex marriage has continued to rise as the practice has become more normalized.Even groups of Americans who have been historically resistant to supporting LGBTQ people in general – such as people above the age of 65, Protestants, and Republicans – have slowly changed their attitudes on same-sex marriage, becoming “mostly supportive” of it, according to Gallup.But while those findings are encouraging for the LGBTQ community, Gallup found that there is still one group of Americans holding fast to their opposition: churchgoers.
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