They know what they are doing, and they don't care who they hurt as long as it gets them votes.
June 3, 2026Republican support for marriage equality has continued to plummet with fewer than 4 in 10 saying same-sex marriages should be valid under the law, according to new polling.
The big picture: The Supreme Court signaled that its landmark decision recognizing same-sex marriage nationwide remains settled law when it turned away a long-shot challenge last year. But the lead plaintiff in the 2015 case and other LGBTQ+ advocates warn the fight is far from over.
Driving the news: While a majority of Americans still back the validity of same-sex marriages, Republican support has slipped sharply — from 55% in 2021 and 2022 to just 37%, per Gallup findings out Wednesday.
- Two decades ago, just around 42% of Americans supported same-sex marriages according to Gallup polling, compared to 65% today. But that's down from early 2020s peaks of around 7 in 10.
- Meanwhile, the supportive share of Republicans has slipped back to where it was in 2015.
The Republicans are following the playbook of Joseph Goebbels, the Propaganda Minister of Nazi Germany: "If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it."
As LGBTQ Nation reported that;
The main culprit was Republicans. Thirty-seven percent agreed that marriage equality should remain legal, while 67% of independents and 87% of Democrats agreed. When it came to the moral acceptability of homosexuality, 35% of Republicans agreed, compared to 65% of independents and 81% of Democrats.
The partisan divide was the most stark for the “changing one’s gender” question: 5% of Republicans agreed that it is morally acceptable to be transgender, compared to 42% of independents and 60% of Democrats.
The decline comes after Republicans across the country started attacking transgender equality in the early 2020s, following their electoral defeat in the 2020 elections. Rights that barely drew attention in the past – like the few trans girls participating in school sports, as they had for decades – became the center of a national conversation.
I don't know about you, but I know Pastor Martin Niemöller's poem. Trump's MAGA support comes from White Christian Nationalists, and that is the audience Trump is playing for. He is willing to trade morality for votes. He started with us, and we could see the handwriting on the wall... that marriage equality would be next.
We have seen this before, in the 1930s when Hitler used it against the Jew and gay. We have seen this with Viktor Orbán in Hungery use it against us, and new Trump is scapgoating our community just like it was done in the past. It is used in times of great economic stress, But scapgoating can only go so far, people begin to see through the lies.
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it,
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