Last week’s Dobbs decision from the Supreme Court, which overturned Roe v. Wade, also contained some news about same-sex marriage. In his majority opinion, Justice Clarence Thomas wrote about his desire to reconsider other precedents from the high court including 2015’s Obergefell v. Hodges, which legalized marriage between people of the same sex.
But reversing that decision would not be easy and the landscape around the issue has shifted sharply in the last decade.
Data show there have been dramatic increases in support of gay marriage and in how many Americans self-identify as LGBTQ. CONTINUED
Dante Chinni, NBC News
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