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Gallup: Support Slips
A new Gallup poll found that about 65% of U.S. adults believe same-sex marriage should be legal, down from 71% in 2022 and 2023.
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The survey also found that only 37% of Republicans say same-sex marriage should be legally valid, while 35% say gay and lesbian relations are “morally acceptable.”
Gallup’s results show the decline is concentrated among Republicans, with Democrats and independents described as largely stable in the findings released Wednesday.
The poll was conducted in May, and the Associated Press said it was based on telephone interviews with a random sample of 1,001 U.S. adults.
The same Gallup data set reported that 62% of U.S. adults view gay and lesbian relations as morally acceptable, down from 71% in 2022.
Partisan Divide Deepens
Fox News reported that moral acceptance of gay and lesbian relationships dipped to 62%, which Gallup says is its lowest point since 2016.
Fox News also said that just 38% of Americans believe changing one’s gender is morally acceptable, down eight points since 2021, while a 57% majority view it as morally wrong.
In the new survey, Fox News said Republicans’ support for legal same-sex marriage “plummeted to 37%,” down from the 55% majority recorded in 2021-2022.
The Associated Press described the widening partisan divide as reflected in policy around LGBTQ+ issues across the U.S., particularly regarding transgender people, and a rising push in some states to ban same-sex marriage.
The Associated Press added that the court turned away a call to overturn the 2015 nationwide recognition of same-sex marriage without comment.
Policy and Legal Battles
The Associated Press said same-sex marriage has been recognized nationwide since a 2015 Supreme Court ruling, capping a 12-year run in which court rulings and state laws recognized it in most states.
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By last year, the Associated Press reported that there were more than 800,000 married same-sex couples, according to data compiled by the Williams Institute at the University of California Los Angeles School of Law.
The Associated Press also said lawmakers in at least 11 states introduced legislation for their current or most recent sessions calling on a ban on same-sex marriage, according to an Associated Press analysis of bills compiled by the legislation tracking service Plural.
The Associated Press reported that most Republican-controlled states have adopted laws in the last five years to bar gender-affirming medical treatments for transgender minors, restrict which school bathrooms transgender people may use and bar transgender girls and women from some sports competitions.
It added that this week a court ruled that the military illegally banned transgender troops, describing it as a blow to one of the Trump administration’s policies.
