Log Cabin LGBT Republicans & Trump want to annul your marriage

This column is for LGBTQ+ Republican voters who are at risk of losing their right to marriage equality and seeing their marriages made illegal. Do you love your spouse enough to protect your marriage? Let's find out.

Remember those assignments at the beginning of the school year, where you had to write about what you did over the summer break? That was a test of your writing skills. This year, as an adultand an LGBTQ+ adultyou're facing a real test: How much do you care about the person you call the love of your life and soulmate?

Many members of the Republican Party in control of either their states State House or State Senate have expressed a desire to challenge marriage equality. If the Supreme Court, under the influence of Republican Justices like Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito, follows through on their stated intentions, Pennsylvania Republicans like many other states would likely introduce legislation to annul your marriage. Leading this effort in Pennsylvania would be Senator Kim Ward, the Republican Senate Pro Tempore, who has a long history of blocking LGBTQ+ equality legislation. As Senate leader, she controls what gets brought to the floor for a vote, and she has consistently used her position to keep LGBTQ+ issues out of the conversation, rendering us invisible. Sound familiar? It's reminiscent of Florida's "Don't Say Gay" law. Move over, Gov. Ron DeSantis.

Here's how this could unfold in Pennsylvania and most states: If Trump is re-elected, and Justices Thomas and Alito act on their ambitions, Pennsylvania Republicans will have the opportunity they've been waiting for to dismantle your marriage. After passing legislation through the Senate and House, such legislation would land on Gov. Josh Shapiro's desk. Gov. Shapiro, a champion for our rights, would veto it. But here's the catchSenator Kim Ward, who leads the Senate, could push for a vote to override the governor's veto.

It's no surprise that Senator Ward supports Donald Trump. Let me explain the Pennsylvania Log Cabin Republicans, and thse Log Cabins in your Statethose LGBTQ+ Republicans who support Trump are inadvertently supporting the end of their own marriages. While some may be indifferent to the fate of their marriage, many of us care deeply and will fight for the ones we love.

If you are so indifferent to your marriage that you'll vote for someone who will take it away, what does that say about you, what does it say about your committment to your spouse? It says that you'd rather go back to the 1960s, when LGBTQ+ people were criminalized and invisible. That's the world you support. That's the world Pennsylvania Log Cabin Republicans want with Donald Trump.

Mark Segal is PGN publisher. He is the nation's most-award-winning commentator in LGBT media. His is the curator of LGBT History at the Stonewall National Monument Visitor Center in New York.