Biden signs same-sex marriage bill at White House ceremony

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : WASHINGTON -- President Joe Biden signed same-sex marriage legislation into law Tuesday before a crowd of thousands, a ceremony that reflected growing acceptance of same-sex unions.
51% : Plaintiffs from lawsuits that originally helped secure the nationwide right to same-sex marriage were also there.
51% : Days later, President Barack Obama announced that he also supported same-sex marriage.
47% : The signing marks the culmination of a monthslong bipartisan effort sparked by the Supreme Court's decision in June to overturn Roe v. Wade, the 1973 ruling that made abortion available across the country.
44% : The new law is intended to safeguard same-sex marriages if the U.S. Supreme Court ever reverses Obergefell v. Hodges, its 2015 decision legalizing same-sex unions nationwide.
44% : In addition, states will not be required to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples.
43% : In a concurring opinion in the case that overturned Roe, Justice Clarence Thomas suggested revisiting other decisions, including the legalization of same-sex marriage, generating fear that more civil rights could be imperiled by the court's conservative majority.
43% : By the time of Biden's 2012 interview, same-sex marriage remained controversial, but support had expanded to roughly half of U.S. adults, according to Gallup.
28% : Lawmakers crafted a compromise that was intended to assuage conservative concerns about religious liberty, such as ensuring churches could still refuse to perform same-sex marriages.
18% : He reversed President Donald Trump's efforts to strip transgender people of anti-discrimination protections.

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