Arkansas Attorney General Seeks to Block LGBT Protections

(LITTLE ROCK, Ark.) — Arkansas' Republican attorney general asked the state Supreme Court on Wednesday to decide whether a city's ban on discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity conflicts with a state law aimed at blocking local protections for gays and lesbians.

Attorney General Leslie Rutledge is appealing a ruling by Washington County Circuit Judge Doug Martin this month backing Fayetteville's anti-discrimination ordinance.