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Claim: “Donald Trump has officially banned gay marriage in all 50 states in America,” a Facebook user claimed.
Verdict: False. Even though Donald Trump has won the election, he has yet to be sworn in as president. Until he is sworn in on January 20, 2025, he has no power to make new laws or abrogate old ones. Also, the U.S. Supreme Court’s Obergefell v. Hodges opinion, which legalised gay marriage in America, is still in force.
Full Text
A vast number of Americans support same-sex marriage, a survey recently conducted by a U.S.-based organisation shows.
This comes almost a decade after the country’s Supreme Court ruled in 2015 that gay marriage is legal nationwide. But there have been reports of the president-elect, Donald Trump, being against the practice of same-sex marriage in the country.
Just a few days after he won the U.S. 2024 presidential election, a Facebook page named United Africa posted that Trump has officially banned same-sex marriage in all 50 states in America.
“Any person caught in the act faces a jail term,” the post said. “The only genders recognised by the USA Government are male and female.”
The post attracted 1.1k reactions, 328 comments, and 145 shares as of the time of this report.
DUBAWA checked the authenticity of the information published.
Verification
The claim on United Africa was made on Nov. 19, 2024, a few days after Donald Trump was elected president. Even though he is president-elect, he has not been sworn in and, therefore, does not have the power under US jurisprudence to make new laws or abrogate old ones.
He will be officially inaugurated on Jan. 20, 2025, but Joe Biden will remain the president of the United States until then.
Also, DUBAWA read the U.S. Supreme Court’s Obergefell v. Hodges opinion, which ruled that gay marriage is legal and permitted to be practised throughout America.
The court, through a 5 to 4 vote ruling, said that “states may not bar same-sex couples from marriage on the same terms as accorded to couples of the opposite sex.
Since then, the court’s decision has not been overturned.
Also, in December 2022, President Joe Biden signed the Respect for Marriage Act.
This law will serve as a shore-up in America if the Supreme Court diminishes the constitutional rights to same-sex marriage in the future.
Conclusion
Therefore, the United Africa’s post that Donald Trump has officially banned gay marriage in all 50 states in America is misleading.
