thefederalist.com
2026-06-26
Same-sex marriage is not on the rocks -- yet. But the LGBT triumphalism of a few years ago is receding. Support for same-sex relationships is dropping, businesses are less inclined to pay for "pride" festivities, and Republican leaders are reclaiming June from the rainbow.
This wasn't supposed to happen. The issue was supposed to be settled, with the rainbow triumphant and opposition receding to a few marginalized religious weirdos. But in the years since the Supreme Court invented a right to same-sex marriage in the Obergefell decision, the effects have become clear, and they aren't what we were promised.
Same-sex marriage was sold to the public as loving and harmless. We were told that "love is love" and that "marriage equality" would have no negative effects on the rest of us. But the slope was slippery, and assurances of "live and let live" proved to be a lie.
There are two main causes why slippery slope warnings proved more prophetic than fallacious. First, there is the premise of same-sex marriage, which is that male and female don't matter in marriage except for subjective preference. Objections to this are dismissed as bigotry. These ideas have consequences, and they have since been made manifest. The second (and related) cause of the slippery slope is that LGBT groups and their allies wanted far more than same-sex marriage. They weren't going to put a ring on it and then declare victory and go home. Rather, everyone and everything, from schools to sports, had to bow to the rainbow flag.
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