Same-sex marriages have more than doubled since the landmark 5-4 decision in 2015.
, which cast the highest percentage of votes of any of Kentucky's 120 counties for the state's constitutional amendment in 2004 banning same-sex marriage — The Courier Journal's review of 483 marriage licenses issued since the decision found only one granted to a same-sex couple.
Yet the benefits for same-sex couples in many cases appear to far outweigh the struggles five years after the ruling. At the time, LGBTQ advocates who had fought for years wept and celebrated on the white marble steps of the high court. The White House was later bathed in rainbow colors. Moore, 36, a city employee, and Roberts, 38, a physician, had held a ceremony a week before the June 26, 2015, ruling at the Seelbach Hotel, donning tuxedos and inviting 300 guests. It wasn’t legal.
Love and Ysunza, both 61, now retired and renovating a home, also got a license that day in 2015. This year, the are preparing to mark their fifth wedding anniversary. The Williams Institute estimates that 1.1% of same-sex couples dissolve relationships each year, slightly lower than different-sex couples.
Even though President Trump's election has fueled cultural divisions, he said Thursday, over five years,"people have seen with their own eyes that families are helped and no one is hurt."
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