A decade later, how Obergefell reshaped marriage, culture and courts 

the supreme court 10 years ago, I voted on extending the definition of marriage to include husbands of the same sex, which is the rule of a teacher 5-4, which changed the course of the history of the United States-to touch deep changes in public opinion, as well as seismic cultural transformations.

“This freedom may no longer be denied,” Anthony Kennedy wrote to the majority. “The court may now retain that couples of the same sex may exercise the basic right to marriage.”

June 2015 Resolution in Obergville against Hodges The guarantee of couples of the same sex has been guaranteed to the same protection and the benefits of their peers of two different sexes.

However, the ruling is not without its critics. In fact, 10 years after the Supreme Court decision, Recent voting offers This public opinion about gay marriage is more divided than ever.

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The tenth anniversary of the operators also comes in a tense political moment. As of January 2025, the White House and Congress rules by the majority of a new governorate – marginalizing progressive and encouraging at least some Republican lawmakers who have indicated their interest in the challenge of the Supreme Court’s decision.

It also comes at a time when the conservative majority court has taken important cases related to LGBTQ+ Eduction, sexual care and more.

Ten years after the court’s decision, here is a look at the place where things stand.

Public opinion

The codification of the country for gay marriage has made such unions more clear, which increases the number of Americans who have personal links to couples who were directly affected by the Supreme Court rule.

In fact, the number of husbands of the same sex in the United States has doubled more than weakness since 2015, according to data from Williams Institute At the University of California Law Faculty of Los Angeles.

In the contract that has passed on the Supreme Court ruling in Ubergville, general support for gay marriage continued to rise, largely driven by the support of Democratic voters and independent voters, although voters on all parties and population signs have witnessed a rise in data, according to Gallup’s polls over the past ten years.

Nearly 7 of every 10 American voters, or 68 % of Americans, said this year that they support gay marriage, according to a survey conducted by Gallup last month-an increase of 8 % compared to a 60 % majority who said the same in 2015.

President Joe Biden raised popular support, providing marriage protection from the same sex at the federal level in 2022 by signing the law of respect for marriage, which required the federal government to recognize marriage of the same sex and marriage between races that are implemented in the states where it is legal.

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Hundreds participate in the annual DC PRIDE show on June 8, 2024. (Astrid Riecken/Washington Post via Getty)

While the law stops arranging countries or regions to marry husbands of the same sex, it requires them to recognize marriage as legitimate, as long as they are valid in the state that has been implemented.

However, this does not mean that these measures were without critics.

Increase the opposition at the federal level and the federal level

Gay marriage support among Republicans has decreased in recent years, with the number of registered Republican voters who said they support the lifting of gay marriage from a majority of 55 % in 2021 to only 41 % in 2025, according to the data collected by Gallup.

It is unclear what exactly paid the shift. However, at least some Republican lawmakers have urged at least in the legislative councils across the country the Supreme Court, through symbolic decisions, to review ObergeFell and change the right at the country’s level of gay marriage.

In fact, in 2024 the legislative bodies of the state submitted more than 500 “anti -LBGT” bill, According to ACLU. Despite the adoption of a few of these bills, supporters of marriage of the same sex are afraid that the reverse reaction will grow into LGBTQ+-which indicates that it could be an indication of the opposition in the future-with the exception of the legal challenge of Obergiville, which can eventually return to the Supreme Court.

Some have called on the left to end the move efforts. (Mark Kerison/in the pictures via Getti Emiez)

Court precedent, executive procedures

The recent Supreme Court decisions have resulted in more speculation about how a conservative majority court can rule in gay marriage, if they decide to take any cases that challenge ObergeFell.

Judges sent shock waves across the nation in 2022 when he canceled the ROE V case. Wade, eliminating the constitutional right to abortion. The decision also sparked renewed concerns that the Supreme Court can reconsider the protection of gay marriage.

Judge Clarence Thomas, for his part, explicitly suggested that the court do this in his opinion that is compatible with the Dops case against Jacksonand The case that was canceledand When writing that the court has a “duty” to correct the error “created” in ObergeFell and other similar issues.

“In future cases, we must reconsider all the precedents of the legal procedures due in this court … [including] Obergville, “added.

president Donald Trump He refused, in a large part of it, to publicly weigh in this regard.

However, he has taken a measure to reverse the training course on the Biden era procedures, including signing an executive order on his first day in his position, announcing that the United States will only get to know “two sexes”, male and female, According to To a copy of the text.

President Donald Trump signs an executive order at the White House Oval Office. Trump has signed an order on his first day in his position, announcing that the United States will only get to know “two sexes”, male and female, raising fears from the advocates of LGBTQ+. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

The following steps

Experts told the Fox News Digital that they would not be surprised by seeing the challenges led by Republicans to Uupraville, with some reference in particular the Supreme Court decision earlier this month in United States against skrmetti – Another central case in which judges voted in the Supreme Court 6-3 to support the Tennessee Law, which prohibits some medical care, such as puberty and hormonal treatment, for adolescents transformed in the state.

Skrmetti was one of the most closely seen cases in the term of the Supreme Court, and preachers of LGBTQ+ organizations such as Aclu and Lamda Legal, which argued in December, from fears that the decision could be a legal pretext for future cases that involve LGBTQ+ – including the sexual trend qualified “in the wings with the wings.

Ethan J. Lip, Professor in Fortham Lu, to News Digitter in an interview after the court’s decision last week: “I will not be surprised if someone tries to relax for equality in marriage.”

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Activists to protest the transit rights outside the Supreme Court before the start of oral arguments in the United States case against Skrmetti. The court ruled 6-3 on June 18, 2025 to support the Tennessee Law in question, in a blow to transgender activists. (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

He pointed out that the judges who joined John Roberts, in the opinion of the majority-Nil Gurch, Brett Cavano, and Amy Kony Barrett-“seemed that they did not want to decide whether the converted people is a semi-specific classification.”

“I think that if they get another case that really relates to transgender adults, they may be ready to see” technical differences “between them – which he said can be launched in a field for judges to distinguish themselves from other conservatives in court.

He also pointed out that Roberts did his best to determine what is considered a race for sex, which could make it “much more difficult” for them to back down from ObergeFell in the short term.

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At the end of the day, Leib said: “I will not be surprised if someone tries to relax for equality” and protection submitted under federal law.

“I think I will be surprised if there are five votes for that,” he said about the majority of Ubergville. “But you know, but I was able to see a way to count to five.”