Reflecting on the ruling's 10th anniversary, plaintiff James Obergefell has "worried aloud about the state of LGBTQ rights in the country and the possibility that a case could reach the Supreme Court that might overturn the decision bearing his name," according to the Associated Press.
In their recent national meeting in Dallas, Southern Baptist delegates overwhelmingly endorsed a ban on same-sex marriage, including a call for the reversal of the Obergefell decision.
Meanwhile, conservative legislators are increasingly speaking out against the 2015 marriage equality ruling through statehouse resolutions in places like Idaho, Michigan, and Montana. The measures don't carry any force beyond recommending certain actions by the Supreme Court.
"While I think it is far less likely, it certainly is not an impossibility that marriage could end up before the Supreme Court again," Chris Hartman with the pro-LGBTQ Fairness Campaign says, noting that his primary concern right now is transgender rights.
As for a hypothetical re-litigation of same-sex marriage, Hartman added: "I'll say this to LGBTQ couples, however, those who are already married. It is extraordinarily unlikely that their marriages would be unraveled by a Supreme Court ruling, but there is always a slim possibility that the Supreme Court could choose to end the right of LGBTQ marriage for future couples."
Still, Hartman predicts an ongoing fight to maintain the legal and political gains LGBTQ individuals have made in the last decade.
"Anti-LGBTQ conservatives will stop at nothing before they have stripped away every right that LGBTQ Americans have won, by the way, of which there are few. And so, certainly, marriage, discrimination protections, all of it is on the chopping block for special interest groups like Alliance Defending Freedom and the Liberty Council," he tells WUKY.
A 2024 Gallup poll found that 69 percent of Americans continue to believe that marriage between same sex couples should be legal. That's up for 60 percent in 2015.