Utah opposes birth certificate request in same-sex parent lawsuit

In court papers filed in federal court and obtained by FOX 13, the Utah Attorney General’s Office is opposing a request for an injunction filed by a lesbian couple who wants to be listed as their child’s parents on a birth certificate.

“The presumption of parentage only applies to cases of marriages involving a man and a woman. It does not apply to instances of marriages between two women or two men,” Utah Federal Solicitor Parker D