--- title: Same-Sex Marriage Approval Ratings Over Time description: These charts show how approval ratings for same-sex marriage have changed over time across political party, gender and more canonical: https://time.com/3937795/gay-marriage-supreme-court-poll/ author: TIME Staff article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-06-26T16:26:59.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T08:35:03.173Z article:section: Ideas og:title: See How Support For Same-Sex Marriage Changed Over Time og:description: Across political parties, gender and ideology og:url: https://time.com/3937795/gay-marriage-supreme-court-poll/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: See How Support For Same-Sex Marriage Changed Over Time twitter:description: Across political parties, gender and ideology twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # See How Support For Same-Sex Marriage Changed Over Time by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Jun 26, 2015 4:26 PM UTC by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Jun 26, 2015 4:26 PM UTC The Supreme Court ruled Friday that all 50 states must allow same-sex couples to be married, and recognize same-sex marriages in states where it was legalized already. Here are a series of charts that show how approval ratings for same-sex marriage have changed over recent years for different groups. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3937795/gay-marriage-supreme-court-poll/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3937795/gay-marriage-supreme-court-poll/"},"headline":"See How Support For Same-Sex Marriage Changed Over Time","datePublished":"2015-06-26T16:26:59.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T08:35:03.173Z","description":"See how attitudes have changed over the years","url":"https://time.com/3937795/gay-marriage-supreme-court-poll/","keywords":["LGBT","politics","relationships","same sex marriage"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/lgbt/","name":"LGBT"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3937795/gay-marriage-supreme-court-poll/","name":"See How Support For Same-Sex Marriage Changed Over Time"}}]}] ```