Yesterday's depressing news that India's supreme court recriminalized gay sex was not the end of the story. In a lot of ways, it was the beginning of a new story. Ashok Sharma writes:

India's law minister said Thursday that the government has not abandoned efforts to make homosexuality legal, and that the country must take swift action to challenge a Supreme Court decision banning same-sex relations.

The minister, Kapil Sibal, said he was for decriminalizing homosexuality, hinting that the government could seek a judicial review of Wednesday's Supreme Court decision or that Parliament could enact a new law.

It's true that when your goal is to decriminalize gay sex, you've got a long way to go as a society. But the United States just technically legalized sodomy ten years ago, and look how far we've come in that time.