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Declining confidence in organized religion likely reflects many factors, including clergy scandals and the religion-politics connection.

Since Vice President Joe Biden and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan publicly declared their support for legalizing same-sex marriage, our phones have been ringing off the hook with requests for more data on Americans' views on this topic. ...

Looking to 2015, Americans are increasingly positive about the economy, and this could produce more upbeat views of Congress and the president. The U.S. will continue to age and get less white, potentially yielding other changes.

Everyone is asking, and some are speculating, about the political impact of President Barack Obama's decision to publicly state his personal support for legal same-sex marriage. There is no doubt that Obama's campaign team spent long hours ...

Americans' trust in the judicial branch has sunk further in the past year, and the Supreme Court's job approval rating is tied for the low in Gallup's trend.

Americans' views on the moral acceptability of sexual behavior and marriage have shifted significantly over the past 20 years.

Two years after the Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage, 10.2% of LGBT Americans are now married to a same-sex partner, up from 7.9% before the ruling.

Half of Americans believe same-sex marriages should be recognized by law as valid -- down slightly from 53% last year, but still the second highest in Gallup's history of tracking this question.

About 0.3% of adults in the U.S. are married to a same-sex spouse, and 0.5% are in a same-sex domestic partnership. In the U.S., this suggests there are 780,000 same-sex marriages and 1.2 million same-sex domestic partnerships today.

Six in 10 Americans say President Obama's support for same-sex marriage will make no difference to their vote. Twenty-six percent say it will make them less likely to vote for him, including 23% of independents and 10% of Democrats.