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Gen Z: The Obergefell Generation, by Mary Frances Devlin – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

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Same-sex marriage supporters outside of the Supreme Court on April 27, 2015, the day before oral arguments in Obergefell v. Hodges (Lorie Shaull/CCA 2.0/Wikimedia Commons)

By Mary Frances Devlin, The American Spectator, June 26, 2025

Support for same-sex unions has declined, even among Americans too young to remember life before Obergefell.

If anything has dominated Gen Z’s political experience more than the ascendance of President Donald Trump, it’s been the prominence of LGBTQ issues in every aspect of culture over the past decade.

In the first instance, public opinion came first. President Trump’s victory in 2016 was a popular referendum on Obama-era progressivism that promised hope and change but delivered government overreach and overregulation. That Trump won the Republican nomination in the first place was a repudiation of the party’s neoconservative leanings. And nearly a decade after his entrance onto the political scene, American voters once again sent Trump back to the White House with an electoral mandate.

But where Trump’s dominance in the past decade of American politics was a reflection of public opinion, LGBTQ issues were injected into the nation’s politics. Public opinion swung to the left afterward. …

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