There are two controversial local proposals on the election ballot where I live — Kalamazoo, Michigan. The first would bar the city of Kalamazoo from taking any action which might put homosexual domestic partnerships on par with heterosexual marriage. The second would require that any group that receives funds from the city would have to pay workers with benefits a minimum of $8.70/hour and workers without benefits a minimum of $10.50/hour. Oddly, those who support one proposal generally oppose the other which is a bit odd considering that they are basically the same proposal.
The main goal of each proposal is to regulate what is seen as unacceptable behavior in the bedroom/ boardroom. Market forces in the area have pegged entry level jobs at a certain hourly rate. They have also produced benefits packages at some local firms that include benefits for same sex partners.
Both trends appall a certain segment of citizens who have actively tried to use the force of the state to reverse them. The possibility that benefits packages between gay employees of the city or hourly wage rates offered to potential workers might be a largely private matter is never even seriously entertained.
It seems almost everyone wants the government to stay out of their business . . . and do everything it can to interfere with the business of others.