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Obergefell Must Go

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Last week marked ten years since the Supreme Court’s decision in Obergefell v. Hodges—the case that invalidated state laws defining marriage as the conjugal union of husband and wife and required states to issue marriage licenses to same-sex partners.

The decision had a stunning impact on American public opinion. Same-sex marriage, once rejected by a solid majority of Americans, became acceptable, for a while at least. By the fifth anniversary of Obergefell, same-sex marriage appeared to have become a permanent fixture of American life; even Republican voters solidly supported it.

Recently, however, Republican support for the idea that same-sex partnerships should be recognized as legal marriages has diminished, though it is still secure among Independents and strongly favored by Democrats. This raises the question of whether Obergefell could go the way of Roe v. Wade and be reversed by the Supreme Court, perhaps in litigation arising from legislation in a state such as Louisiana, in which belief in marriage as a male-female union is strong.

Andrew Sullivan and others who support same-sex marriage have warned that a “backlash” against it is developing because the left-wing advocacy groups that produced Obergefell almost immediately pushed even more radical ideas, such as allowing men and boys who identify as female to be given access to female-only spaces. These same organizations seek to compel young children in public schools to read ideologically one-sided pro-LGBT books, expose kids to “drag” shows, and so forth.

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