Does Congress Think It's Done Protecting Gays?
Apparently not, as both parties prepare legislation to strengthen certain protections against discrimination.
For gay-rights advocates, if there was any conceivable downside to their definitive victory at the Supreme Court last month, it was the sense of finality that came with it. There was no equivocation, no qualifiers, no hedging in the Court's decision. The right for same-sex couples to marry is now enshrined in the Constitution, culminating a decades-long battle that accelerated rapidly to a decisive victory in the last few years. They had won.
With their most important goal achieved, what more could they want? Quite a lot, it turns out.
"Despite how far we've come, we cannot mistake our progress for victory,"
