According to Religion New Service, having helped to engineer the demise of Roe v. Wade after half a century of anti-abortion activism, attendees at the National Religious Broadcasters conference openly discussed plans to make shorter work of Obergefell v. Hodges, the landmark 2015 Supreme Court ruling that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide. Conservative Christians say they are emboldened by President Donald Trump’s election and the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade in 2022, and hope justices will eventually respond to a growing list of efforts to overturn marriage equality.
Support for same-sex marriage remains high among Americans, according to a 2024 report by the Public Religion Research Institute, which showed that about 67% agreed it should be legal. Solid majorities of white mainline Protestants, white Catholics, and Hispanic Catholics back same-sex marriage, as do high percentages of Jewish Americans (80%), Buddhists (82%), and religiously unaffiliated Americans (86%). Why is marriage equality important to Queer people of faith, and what is our religious obligation to defend it?
