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Perkins: 11 Years Later, the Receipts for Same-Sex Marriage Are In

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29.06.2026

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Perkins: 11 Years Later, the Receipts for Same-Sex Marriage Are In

Pride Month 2026 began with some bracing news for the LGBTQIA movement. According to Gallup’s latest annual survey, public support for same-sex marriage, the morality of homosexual conduct, and transgenderism has declined significantly.

Support for same-sex marriage has fallen six percentage points from its high point in 2022 and 2023. The percentage of Americans who believe same-sex sexual behavior is morally acceptable has dropped to 62%, its lowest level since 2016, the year after the Supreme Court’s decision in Obergefell v. Hodges forced states to recognize same-sex marriages. The most dramatic shift, however, has come on transgenderism. The percentage of Americans who view attempting to change one’s sex as morally acceptable has declined eight percentage points since 2021 and now stands at just 38%.

Why is this happening? After all, major social changes have historically become more accepted over time, not less. Americans are increasingly reconsidering what they were told because they have now lived with the results. The experiment is no longer theoretical. It has become personal.

Take interracial marriage. In 1965, 48% of Americans favored state laws banning interracial marriage. Two years later, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled in Loving v. Virginia that such........

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