Is the GOP's recent anti-gay bill trend an act of rage?

[AggregateDemand]

It has nothing to do with gay. It has everything to do with the legislature hijacking power from the judiciary by writing new laws.

In fact, the "anti-gay" bills are as much pro-gay as anti-gay. If an anti-gay person can discriminate against homosexuals, homosexuals can discriminate against the anti-gay fundamentalists.

The political optics are bad enough that reasonable people can rule out any social agenda. The obvious agenda pertains to conservative mistrust of the unelected, often-progressive judiciary.

[AggregateDemand]

You do realize that that is the job of the legislature, right?

Sure. The job of the state legislature is to preempt the judiciary by passing new state laws anytime a ruling on federal statutes is imminent. Like when Oklahoma passed the anti-Sharia laws. That was a good use of time. Judiciary couldn't have ruled against hypothetical Sharia-law without assistance from the legislature.