Gay rights group wants Utah’s anti-gay school laws halted

A gay rights advocacy group wants a judge to halt Utah state laws it says discriminates against LGBT students by restricting talk about homosexuality in schools. The National Center for Lesbian Rights argues in a request for preliminary injunction filed Wednesday that the laws serve no purpose other than expressing the state’s moral disapproval of homosexuality. The state of Utah has denied it has anti-gay school laws, saying the case quotes selectively from state law and school rules. The Board of Education didn’t immediately have comment on the new filing. The Utah law was part of a wide-ranging sexual education bill passed with little dissent in 2001. Several states have similar laws. The Utah lawsuit, filed in October, marked the first challenge since the U.S. Supreme Court same-sex marriage ruling.