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Every year, we take a look back at all our stories on U.S. public opinion and choose the most notable of the year. 2022 was packed with highs and lows; here are our top 10.

More LGBT Americans living with a same-sex partner now report being married (45%) than did so in the months prior to the Supreme Court decision to make same-sex marriages legal in all 50 states (38%).

As the Supreme Court prepares to rule next month, 60% of Americans now support same-sex marriage. This is up from 55% last year, and represents a new high in Gallup's polling.

The Alabama Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered probate judges in that state to stop issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples, defying a U.S. District Court ruling that had overturned Alabama's ban on such marriages.

Gallup findings over the past decade reveal that the years from 2010 to 2019 encompassed some revolutionary changes in public opinion.

Roughly half of cohabiting same-sex couples in the U.S. are married as opposed to living in a domestic partnership. That is up from 38% before the U.S. Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage nationwide a year ago.

Views on the morality of a variety of practices are largely stable, though fewer say same-sex relations are morally OK and more say the death penalty is.

A majority of Americans remain satisfied with the acceptance of gays and lesbians in the U.S., but 23% are dissatisfied because they seek more acceptance.

Americans' approval of the Supreme Court and their trust in it remain low. The public is divided on whether its ideology is "about right" or "too conservative."

In the wake of key decisions by the U.S. Supreme Court, the public's approval of its job remains little changed overall but with record-high division among partisans.