Observant Jews Want Obergefel Overturned

It’s not just Christians who support a return to a traditional marriage definition.

Yehezkel Schiff | July 19, 2026

The mainstream media has been sounding the alarm about the renewed opposition to gay marriage. Specifically, they are raising concerns about current efforts to overturn the U.S. Supreme Court’s Obergefell v. Hodges decision, which required states to license and recognize same-sex marriage.

The media have limited their coverage to the efforts of Christian conservatives, with no discussion about why they oppose the Court’s decision, including the impact gay parenting has had on children. Yet other segments of society, including observant Jews and many conservatives without religious affiliation, share in their desire to return to a traditional definition of marriage. Collectively, their advocacy appears to have a growing impact in realigning the culture with traditional values, if not the law.

Observant Jewish leadership in the U.S. (and Israel) continues to be vocal in supporting the traditional family. The traditional family is the bedrock not just of Judaism, but of all of humanity.

Eleven years ago, when the Supreme Court heard Obergefell, the Coalition for Jewish Values, a group of some 1,100 Orthodox rabbis, actively supported a traditional definition of marriage and subsequently opposed the Supreme Court’s 5-4 decision. Its position has not changed. In a letter regarding the “Respect for Marriage Act,” Yaakov Menken, director of CJV, wrote, “the proposed Act would adopt, as US policy, a........

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