Research commissioned by the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) found that 65.8 percent of Americans support same-sex couples’ right to marry, with 36.2 percent saying they ‘strongly’ support keeping protections in place. Comparatively, just 34.3 percent of respondents said they oppose same-sex marriage, 16.1 percent of which said they strongly oppose it.
It comes as the U.S. Supreme Court prepares to decide whether it will hear a case challenging same-sex marriage protections brought in 2015 under the Obergefell v Hodges judgment, saying that people, not the government, should be able to decide whom they marry, and that equal protection requires access to legal marriage for same-sex couples on the same terms and conditions as others.
Asking respondents how much confidence they have now in the Supreme Court, just 34.6 percent of LGBTQ adults said they had a great deal, while 65.4 percent have hardly any.
Kelley Robinson, HRC’s president, urged the Supreme Court to reject what she called a “paper-thin attempt to undermine marriage equality and the dignity of LGBTQ people” in the U.S. “Marriage equality isn’t just the law of the land – it’s woven into the fabric of American life,” she said. “For more than a decade, millions of LGBTQ couples have gotten married, built families, and contributed to their communities".
A recent report from The Williams Institute found that there are more than 823,000 married same-sex couples in the U.S., as of June, and they are raising nearly 300,000 children.
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