Points very well made, Lisa! How well I remember that era before same-sex marriage was legal everywhere. "Oh, well, we can work to extend you a few rights," conservative people would say. "But not marriage, never that. You are inferior to us, and we will never extend you the full rights of marriage, the full humanity of equality with us. Don't ever presume to think you are as good as we are."

If anybody thinks that's changed, that Republicans have adapted a different or softer line, they need only look at what happened in Texas last week. Hell, they need only examine opinion polls.

Republican voters would strip us of our rights and humanity in a heartbeat.

And as we've seen clearly and repeated this year, Republican leaders aren't the least bit shy of appealing to that sentiment to win votes. They're racing to the bottom of the bigotry pool with astonishing fury.

LGBTQ people who allies who claim it's okay to support the Republican Party have their hands over their eyes and their fingers stuck into their ears.