The U.S. Supreme Court ruled ten years ago today that the Constitution protects the right of same-sex couples to get married. A supermajority of Americans—more than two-thirds—supports marriage equality, but anti-LGBTQ religious-right groups and their allies are determined to dismantle it.
The Court’s pro-equality ruling in Obergefell v Hodges effectively overturned state marriage bans that had been enacted across the country. The same forces that pushed those bans are using the anniversary of the marriage equality ruling to boost their legal and political attacks on legal equality for same-sex couples.
Overturning Roe v Wade took anti-abortion activists 50 years, but religious-right groups are hoping to dispatch legal marriage equality much more quickly thanks to shifts on the Supreme Court over the past ten years, with three Trump justices fortifying the far-right flank. Republican state legislators are giving them a hand by trying to pass anti-equality laws that would be challenged in court, giving the Court a chance to reverse Obergefell.
The fact is that anti-equality leaders have never accepted the legitimacy of the Obergefell ruling. They were making plans to overturn it even before the decision was announced.
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