Only days after calling for an end to what he himself had described as a “barbaric” practice, last week Gov. Gary Herbert backed the hostile takeover of legislation meant to protect LGBT youth from conversion therapy.
Shockingly, rather than championing a compromise bill that had been negotiated in good faith by key Utah groups, including Equality Utah and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, instead the administration of Gov. Herbert and Lt. Gov. Spencer Cox caved in to a dangerous substitute bill championed by extremists including a recognized out-of-state hate group.