U.S. Census Bureau: Same-Sex Couple Households in U.S. Exceed 1 Million

Same-sex households in the U.S. exceeded one million in 2021 for the first time ever, according to data touted by the U.S. Census.

Data from the American Community Survey, released by the U.S. Census Bureau, found that there were 1.2 million same-sex couple households in 2021. The trend has remained relatively steadily on the rise over the past 10+ years, as there were less than 600,000 same-sex couple households recorded in 2008. Over ten years later, in 2019, that figure hovered below one million.

Of the 1.2 million same-sex households recorded in 2021, 710,000 were married, and 500,000 unmarried.

According to the Census Bureau data, South Dakota reported the lowest percentage of same-sex households, with less than half of a percentage point, or 0.4 percent.

Washington, D.C., had “the highest percentage of same-sex couple households of any state or state equivalent,” at 2.5 percent, per the data. Other areas that reported some of the highest figures of same-sex households included Hawaii (1.4 percent), Oregon (1.3 percent), and Delaware (1.3 percent).

The New York Times notes that “the number of married same-sex households began to outpace unmarried same-sex couple households in 2016, a year after the U.S. Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage.”

The data comes as the Senate advances a same-sex marriage bill, the so-called “Respect for Marriage Act” (RFMA), which Democrats initially passed with the help of 12 Republicans:

The RFMA came about following the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade, prompting a panic among far-leftists, who asserted that the Court could use the Dobbs decision “to overrule the Court’s Obergefell gay marriage decision,” as Breitbart News reported.

The Senate, however, rejected Sen. Mike Lee’s (R-UT) religious liberty amendment — a move the senator deemed a “discouraging development in our country’s storied history of protecting the free exercise of religion”:

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