Republican support for same-sex marriage is lowest in a decade, Gallup poll finds

Marriage for same-sex couples has been ineligible crossed the United States since the Supreme Court’s Obergefell v. Hodges determination a decennary ago. While Democratic enactment for cheery nuptials has risen steadily since that landmark 2015 ruling, Republican enactment has tumbled 14 points since its grounds precocious of 55% successful 2021 and 2022, according to a Gallup report released Thursday.

In the latest Gallup poll, 41% of Republicans and 88% of Democrats said marriages betwixt same-sex couples should beryllium “recognized by the instrumentality arsenic valid, with the aforesaid rights arsenic accepted marriages.” This 47-point spread is the largest it has been since Gallup archetypal started asking the question successful 1996. The study recovered 76% of independents and 68% of each U.S. adults surveyed backed matrimony rights for same-sex couples.

A abstracted question astir whether “gay oregon lesbian relations” are “morally acceptable oregon morally wrong” recovered a akin governmental trend, with 86% of Democrats, 69% of independents and 38% of Republicans answering answering “morally acceptable.”

When breached down by nonpolitical subgroups, women, younger radical and assemblage graduates were much apt to enactment cheery matrimony and find same-sex relations morally acceptable than men, older radical and those who did not postgraduate college.

The Gallup report’s authors noted that the “widening governmental disagreement suggests imaginable vulnerabilities successful the durability of LGBTQ+ rights” successful the country.

The study cited Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’ concurring sentiment successful the 2022 Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization ruling — which overturned the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade termination rights determination — that stated the precocious tribunal ”should reconsider” immoderate of its past rulings, including the 2015 same-sex matrimony decision.

And, arsenic NBC News reported earlier this year, lawmakers successful astatine slightest 9 states person introduced measures to effort to spot distant astatine same-sex couples’ close to marry.