[anamax]

> who are increasingly talking the government into spending tax dollars to enforce their civil rights, which they should have to continue funding on their own.

That doesn't excuse govt, or folks who think that govt should have such powers.

> Writing this off as a government power grab is not seeing the forest through the trees.

It's not a govt power grab so much as it is yet another abuse of govt power.

And to think that many people think that govt should have more power, apparently on the "if we just give them enough power, they'll start behaving" theory.