A few short months from now—right after one of the assholes pictured above clinches the Republican nomination—some tiny gay Republican group is going to start encouraging gays and lesbians to vote GOP in 2016. They'll mewl about how the Republican nominee isn't that bad on gay issues, or about how the Democratic nominee wasn't always that great on gay issues, or about how with marriage equality a done deal gay voters are now free to "vote their pocketbooks" and back the man with a plan to slash the taxes of gay and straight Americans alike. (And blow up the deficit for gay and straight Americans alike.)

Don't fall for it. Here's Marco Rubio, who claims to be the candidate of young peeps and optimism and the future, on marriage equality and the rights of federal employees who happen to be LGBT:

Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio has pledged to reverse President Obama’s executive order barring anti-LGBT workplace discrimination among federal contractors, saying faith-based businesses are “being compelled to sin by government in their business conduct.”

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Rubio went on to discuss the Supreme Court rulings in favor of same-sex marriage and abortion rights, saying the next president must appoint justices who understand the U.S Constitution “is not a living and breathing document. It is a document of limitation and it’s supposed to be interpreted and applied based on its original intent,” Rubio said. “And there is no way that you can read that Constitution and deduce from it that there is constitutional right to an abortion, or a constitutional right to marry someone of the same sex.

All the viable, top-tier GOP candidates are making similar pledges to the religious right: they're going to pack the Supreme Court in an effort to overturn Obergefell—just one of the many harmful things they're pledging to do us queers—and gays and lesbians would have to be fools to back Rubio in the general election or any of the shits he's running against.

And, hey, it's not a coincidence that Marco attacks marriage equality and abortion rights in the same breath. Rubio and the rest of the GOP candidates see these two issues as intrinsically linked, homos, and you should too. Both are ultimately about the right of Americans who are not straight men to control their own bodies—a woman's right to decide when or if she wants to bear a child, your right to decide who you're gonna fuck and/or marry. Anti-choice candidates are anti-gay candidates and vice-versa. Vote accordingly.