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2020–present. A 2024 Gallup poll found that 69% of Americans (83% of Democrats, 74% of independents and 46% of Republicans) supported same-sex marriage, while 29% opposed it. [ 20] A 2023 New York Times / Siena poll found that 70% of Americans supported same-sex marriage, while 22% opposed it.
Gallup found that nationwide public support for same-sex marriage reached 50% in 2011, [ 6 ] 60% in 2015, [ 7 ] and 70% in 2021. [ 8 ] In the 2020 United States census, same-sex married couples accounted for 0.5% of all U.S. households while unmarried same-sex couples accounted for 0.4% of all U.S. households.
Discrimination. Same-sex marriage, also known as gay marriage, is the marriage of two people of the same legal sex. As of 2024, marriage between same-sex couples is legally performed and recognized in 36 countries, with a total population of 1.5 billion people (20% of the world's population).
When asked about "gay marriage" while running to represent Massachusetts in the U.S. Senate in 1994, Mitt Romney said: "it is not appropriate at this time". [18] In December 1996, considering the possibility of Hawaii legalizing same-sex marriage, Weld said that Massachusetts would recognize the validity of same-sex marriages licensed there.
Almost 1.5 million people lived with a same-sex spouse in the U.S. in 2022, double what it was in the year before gay marriage was legalized, according to the bureau's American Community Survey. A ...
Same-sex marriage has been legal in Texas since the U.S. Supreme Court 's ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges on June 26, 2015. Previously, the U.S. state of Texas had banned same-sex marriage both by statute since 1973 and in its State Constitution since 2005.
The latest volley is a recent appeal of case of Kim Davis, the Kentucky county clerk who refused to issue marriage licenses to same sex partners after the Supreme Court legalized gay marriage in ...
Kim Davis, the former clerk in Rowan County, Ky., and her attorneys hope her case will overturn the right to gay marriage in America using a precedent set by the Supreme Court in ending Roe v. Wade.