- Thirty-one states lack such protections for LGBT people, according to the lawmakers and advocates, and they criticized what they called a patchwork of laws that required a federal solution. “An LGBT person could get married on Saturday, post photos of their wedding on Sunday, and get fired from their job or thrown out of their apartment on Monday,” Cicilline said, repeating a version of a talking point that’s become popular in the weeks since the Supreme Court ruling was handed down.
A looooot of my trans friends were not super stoked about marriage equality for precisely this reason. It's still largely unsafe to be out, and a lot of them are very frustrated that this got hailed as a huge LGBT victory when really it's a big LGB victory.
It'll happen eventually, probably sooner rather than later, even with Republican controlled houses. Equal treatment for gay Americans was a wedge issue the right has used to attack the left forever. Within the space of a decade it's getting to the point where it's no longer effective to weaponize like that. The thing a lot on the right don't realize is that's the issue is continuing on its trajectory and is on it's way to becoming a wedge issue that the left can attack the right with to great effect, rather than just staying a non-issue. People are becoming less bigoted and less tolerant of bigots. We've already go several protected classes. It isn't a hard argument to make and win the way public sentiment is going.