Although the number of married same-sex couples in the U.S. has increased since the Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage last year, more than half remain unmarried.

CNSNews.com is reporting on the latest Gallup poll which found that 3.9 percent of U.S. adults are lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender, and .04 percent of U.S. adults are married to a same-sex spouse. An estimated 123,000 same-sex marriages have taken place since the June 26, 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges decision.

As the report states, “Currently, 9.6 percent of LGBT adults report being married to a same-sex spouse, up from 7.9 percent before the landmark court decision. Meanwhile, the percentage of LGBT Americans who are living with a same-sex domestic partner has declined, from 12.8 percent to 10.1 percent — a larger decline compared with the increase in same-sex marriages.

“This indicates that while many unmarried same-sex couples who were living together got married in the past year, many others stopped living together or no longer consider themselves to be domestic partners. The largest percentage of LGBT Americans — 49.9% — continue to identify as single or never married, up from 47.4% a year ago.”

According to CNS, the survey includes other significant findings:

— The proportion of married same-sex couples remains higher in states in which the practice had been legal before the Supreme Court’s ruling.

— Males who identify as LGBT are more likely than females who identify as LGBT to report being married to a same-sex spouse (10.5% vs. 8.8%, respectively).

— Recent data collected since Gallup’s initial update on same-sex marriages in November show the growth in same-sex marriages may be leveling off. The Obergefell v. Hodges ruling appears to have provided the impetus for an initial surge in same-sex marriages, but that surge only lasted a short while.

Results for the survey were based on telephone interviews with a random sample of U.S. adults, aged 18 and older, living in all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia.
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