The vast majority of Americans opposed same-sex marriage on May 17, 2004, when the first same-sex couples took their vows after a court decision in Massachusetts.
There was verifiable backlash to marriage equality in November 2004, when voters in 11 states... codified in their constitutions that marriage should be between a man and a woman.
The effort to oppose same-sex marriage certainly didn't hurt [George W. Bush] in the [crucial] state of Ohio. Without Ohio, Bush would have lost to then-Sen. John Kerry.
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