Gay marriage victory at Supreme Court triggering backlash

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2016/05/29/gay-lesbian-transgender-religious-exemption-supreme-court-north-carolina/84908172/

USA Today/ Richard Wolf, USA TODAY 2:05 p.m. EDT May 29, 2016

"WASHINGTON — When the Supreme Court declared a constitutional right to same-sex marriage last June, the man who won the leading case warned that opponents would find new ways to push back.

"We will have to continue the fight," Jim Obergefell said then — and he was right.

For nearly a year, seesaw battles over religious exemptions and transgender rights have replaced what had been the gay rights movement's steady progress in winning protections against discrimination in states and cities. Legislative and legal skirmishes have been triggered by an intransigent Alabama chief justice and a defiant Kentucky county clerk, a Colorado baker and a Washington State florist, and most recently a conservative backlash that has traveled east from Texas to Mississippi to North Carolina."

What will they do when they have culled the least of us and failed?

Yeah, this has happened after every single major civil rights victory.  Give it time.

Change is hard for some people. Particularly if they perceive their power in society eroding as a result.