Demonstrating how fast the culture is shifting and moving the Overton window, a new Gallup poll reveals how far American sentiments on gay -marriage have come in just a few decads, and it’s pretty remarkable. According to the report:
Seventy-one percent of Americans think same-sex marriage should be legal, matching the high Gallup recorded in 2022. Public support for legally recognizing gay marriages has been consistently above 50% since the early 2010s.
The latest figures are from Gallup’s annual Values and Beliefs poll, conducted May 1-24.
When Gallup first polled about same-sex marriage in 1996, barely a quarter of the public (27%) supported legalizing such unions. It would take another 15 years, until 2011, for support to reach the majority level. Then in 2015, just one month before the U.S. Supreme Court’s Obergefell v. Hodges decision, public support for legalizing gay marriage cracked the 60% level.
They further note “majorities of all but two key subgroups — Republicans (49%) and weekly churchgoers (41%) — say gay marriages should be legally recognized. The group most supportive of gay marriage is those aged 18 to 29, to the tune of a whopping 89%.
With the way things are going, it won’t take more than a few years until weekly churchgoers and Republicans are in the majority, and all that remains will be a faithful remnant that has never bowed their knees to the rainbow Baal.
