A Bad Trend

So first an unnecessary ban on gay marriage through a constitutional amendment - which also deprive public employers, and attempts to deprive private employers, of their right to contract in the form of providing employees with benefits for domestic partners, and also attempts to ban civil domestic partnerships - now this? What's next?

Repubicans like to speak of themselves as the Party of Lincoln. But the fingerprints I see on the Michigan party's legislative agenda don't appear to be Lincoln's.