… As the Supreme Court prepares to hear arguments on same-sex marriage next Tuesday, the nation seems more ready to accept it than many imagined even a year ago. But divisions remain, and while more than half of Americans now endorse the idea, about one-third say they oppose it, according to survey data from 2014. …
Gerald N. Rosenberg, a political scientist and legal scholar at the University of Chicago, said his former predictions of a wider, lasting backlash to marriage rulings have been overtaken by the “sea change in public opinion.” CONT.
Erik Eckholm, New York Times
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