More than 425,000 same-sex couples had already wed in the U.S. when the Supreme Court approved such unions in the historic Obergefell v. Hodges decision June 26, 2015. Ten years later, the number of gay marriages has risen by at least 55 percent, reaching 774,553 in 2023, based on U.S. Census Bureau data as reported by Pew Research Center. Brent Leatherwood, president of the Southern Baptist Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, said Obergefell did more than alter legal definitions, but “cemented a cultural rejection of God’s design for marriage.”