On an issue as important to human happiness as the right to share your life with a partner in marriage, we should all try to keep the fear and cynicism that poisons our politics to a minimum.

More than two dozen U.S. states have trigger laws that would limit marriage equality if the Supreme Court overturned its legalization of gay marriage.

President Trump stated his support for Obergefell v. Hodges in 2016, saying: “It was settled in the Supreme Court. I mean it’s done. These cases have gone to the Supreme Court. They’ve been settled. And I’m fine with that.”

Republican policymakers in states from Michigan to Tennessee have begun proposing bills that would roll back same-sex marriage. These lawmakers may discover to their dismay that they have the politics of the issue quite wrong.

A majority of surveyed Republicans say they support same-sex marriage, according to new data from a trio of polling firms.

In the summer before an election, it’s far too easy to focus on the things that divide our country. From foreign policy to taxes to the next occupant of the White House, there’s no shortage of topics where America is struggling to find common ground.

Twenty years ago this week, David Wilson and Rob Compton entered into a marriage that some believed would bring on the apocalypse. These days, they are happily retired and spend their time volunteering and visiting with their grandchildren.

By framing the political debate and lobbying key legislators, the Log Cabin Republicans and other GOP activists helped make same-sex marriage a reality.

Behind the success of the Respect for Marriage Act was a group of prominent Republicans, some of them gay, who worked to persuade G.O.P. senators that embracing it was a political winner.

Writing in the Press Herald, Ken Mehlman discusses the months of hard work and compromise it took to secure bipartisan passage in both the Senate and the House.