Religious Views On Same-Sex Marriage Have Radically Changed

Carol Kuruvilla


When Massachusetts became the first state to legalize same-sex marriage in 2003, America's major religious denominations didn’t offer much support.

Now, more than a decade later, religious attitudes toward LGBT rights have shifted dramatically. Not only are people of faith more vocal about their support for marriage equality, but they are, at times, willing to contradict official church doctrine to express those views.

On Tuesday, the Supreme Court is scheduled to hear oral arguments from a group of cases that challenge same-sex marriage bans in Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio and Tennessee. The Public Religion Research Institute recently used data from its American Values Atlas to determine where America’s major religious groups now stand on the issue.


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