Ahead of a much-anticipated Supreme Court ruling, a new poll shows that the majority of Americans are in favor of gay marriage.
Of those interviewed in a NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll, 57% say they favor gay marriage, with 45% of those saying they “strongly” favor a decision to legalize gay marriage.
Those numbers mark a dramatic turnaround from 2001, when a Pew poll found that 57% of Americans opposed gay marriage.
The Supreme Court is expected to make a decision on Obergefell v. Hodges by the end of June. The case challenges the constitutionality of state bans on gay marriage.
But according to the Pew Research Center, who conducted their own survey of American attitudes toward gay marriage, support still falls along party lines with two-thirds of Democrats supporting gay marriage and two-thirds of Republicans still opposing it.
But for Samuel and many others, the survey is good news.