Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes is defending his decision to join legal efforts before the U.S. Supreme Court in support of limiting job protections for LGBTQ workers.
With Reyes’s authorization, Utah has joined Nebraska and 14 other states in urging the nation’s high court to review a federal ruling in Michigan against a funeral home over its firing of a transgender employee — a move that has drawn criticism from at least one Utah group as wrong-headed and dangerous.
In a statement posted on his office’s website, Reyes said joining other Republican attorneys general in backing the case was not about “whether prohibiting employment discrimination on the basis of gender identity is good or bad policy.