President Trump waved the rainbow flag at a campaign rally, entered office supporting same-sex marriage, and has appointed openly gay officials to major posts in his administration. No, the president’s record on gay and transgender rights isn’t perfect, but under Trump, the national Republican Party has tacked away from division on gay rights and more or less moved on from the wedge issue. Yet the weekend brought a sad reminder that while the GOP nationally grows more tolerant and inclusive of gay people, particularly among young Republicans, some states are lagging behind, woefully so.

On Saturday, the Texas Republican Party barred the Texas Log Cabin Republicans, a state branch of the largest gay and transgender GOP organization, from official party affiliate recognition, even going so far as to deny them a booth at the state convention. Opponents of the gay GOP group’s recognition included Republican state Sen. Bob Hall, who decried the organization for supposedly promoting “unnatural sex,” and religious activist Steven Hotze, who lobbied against the group’s admission by ranting about gay people’s allegedly “immoral and perverted sexual proclivities.”