The LGBTQ Movement Pushed Too Far, and Now It's Paying the Price

In 2015, the Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage in Obergefell v. Hodges. Many Americans assumed it was the end of a long cultural and political fight.

But it turned out to be only the beginning.

The LGBTQ movement was emboldened by the victory and demanded more. Since then, every new demand has been framed as the next inevitable step forward, and anyone who questioned where things were headed got dismissed as backward, intolerant, or on the wrong side of history.

For years, social conservatives were told that resistance was futile and that public opinion only moved in one direction. Cultural victories were treated as permanent and irreversible. Meanwhile, LGBTQ activists acted as though they’d been handed a blank check from the American people. But they went too far, and people have started pushing back. And a cause that spent years building goodwill is about to learn the hard way that goodwill isn’t an unlimited resource.

A decade after Obergefell, there are growing signs that Americans are taking a harder look at where the LGBTQ movement has led.