GILLETTE, Wyo. Marlayna Walker is a lifelong Christian. She thinks abortion should be banned. She doesnt support gay couples adopting children. And she doesnt like the idea of transgender people using public bathrooms that match their gender identity.

But ask Walker, a 30-year-old mother of three, if she wishes her states laws were more restrictive on those issues some of which were recently debated in the Wyoming Legislature and shell tell you absolutely not.

I definitely dont care about passing laws to prevent gays from adopting, she said, bouncing her 18-month-old son, Zeke, in her arms outside a local bank in this northeastern Wyoming coal town. I dont want my legislature to do that. These are just my beliefs.