Whakarāpopototia te tuhinga:  Washington (CNN) I mua tata nei, ki te noho koe ki te hahi i te ata o te Ratapu, ka taea e nga kairangahau te matapae kei hea koe e tu ana i runga i te marenatanga o te taangata kotahi. He aha te rerekētanga o te tekau tau. I te tau 2003, i te wā i āhei ai te Kooti Nui o Massachusetts ki te whakamana i te marenatanga o te hunga ōrite ira tangata, iti iho i te 30% o ngā Amerikana whakapono i tautoko i te tika o ngā tāngata tāne, tāne rānei ki te marenatanga. I te tau 2014, kua piki taua tau ki te 47 ōrau, e ai ki tētahi rangahau i whakahaerehia e te Public Religion Research Institute. He nui ake tēnei i te 45% i kī mai e whakakāhore ana ki ngā marenatanga o te ira ōrite. He iti noa iho te rerekētanga engari he mea nui ki te tatauranga, e ai ki a Robert P. Jones, Tumuaki o PRRI, nā te nui o te hunga i uiui: 40,000 nga Amerikana pakeke. (E waru ōrau i whakakahore ki te whakautu, i mea rānei kāore i te mōhio ki to rātau tūnga ki te faaipoiporaa o te ira tangata kotahi.) E ai ki te rangahau a te PRRI, he tokomaha ake ngā tāngata whakapono e tautoko ana i te marenatanga ōrite i te hunga e whakahe ana ki a ia, he hurihanga nui i roto i tētahi o ngā tautohetohe tino wehewehe o tēnei whenua, me tētahi huringa whakatupuranga e āhei ana ki te huri i ngā mea katoa mai i te umanga marena ki te whakataetae perehitini 2016. "Kua nui te hurihanga i roto i te tekau tau kua hipa", i mea a Jones. "Kei reira inaianei he nui, ngā rōpū matua i runga i ngā taha e rua o te tautohetohe". Mēnā e whai whakaaro ana te Kooti Nui o te Hononga o Amerika, tērā pea i kite i tēnei āhuatanga e haere mai ana. I ia wā e whakaarohia ana e te kōti teitei tētahi take e pā ana ki te faaipoiporaa o te hunga ōrite ira tangata, kua piki ake te nui o ngā pūrongo amicus mai i ngā rōpū whakapono e tautoko ana i ngā tika o te hunga ōrite ira tangata, ā, kua piki haere te tini o te hunga e whakahe ana ki waho o ō rātou kaupae kōhatu nui. Hei tauira, i te Rāhoroi, i te wā e whakarongo ana te Kooti Nui ki ngā tohe ā-waha i roto i te Obergefell v. Hodges, he take e tino tūmanakohia ana kia puta he whakataunga whakahirahira mō te marenatanga o te ira tangata ōrite, kei te whakamahere tētahi rōpū ā-iwi o ngā tohunga ā-iwi e arahina ana e te tumuaki o te Whare Karakia ā-Motu o Washington ki te haere ki te tautoko i ngā tika LGBT. "Kei te hono atu ahau ki te tini o nga hapori whakapono o Amerika i roto i taku tumanako ka whakaaetia e te whakatau a te Kooti te marenatanga o te taangata kotahi i roto i nga 50 katoa...
I tēnei wā he tokomaha ake ngā tāngata whakapono e tautoko ana i te marenatanga ōrite i te hunga e whakahe ana ki a ia, e ai ki tētahi rangahau hou. Mēnā e whai whakaaro ana te Kooti Nui o Amerika, tērā pea i kite i tēnei āhuatanga e haere mai ana.