There Is No Bottom

Not for this regime. Now they're going after 4H Clubs:

The Trump administration pushed the national 4-H youth organization to withdraw a controversial policy welcoming LGBT members — a move that helped lead to the ouster of Iowa's top 4-H leader earlier this year, a Des Moines Register investigation found.

The international youth organization, with more than 6 million members, introduced the new guidance to ensure LGBT members felt protected by their local 4-H program. The document and their attempts to broaden membership in the LGBT community was a smaller part of a larger, multi-year effort to modernize the federally authorized group. . . .

Within days of the LGBT guidance's publication, Heidi Green, then-chief of staff for U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue, requested that it be rescinded, Sonny Ramaswamy, then-director of the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, the federal department that administers 4-H, told the Register.

Afterward, a NIFA communications manager sent an "urgent" email to at least two states — Iowa and New York — urging the 4-H organizations there to remove the LGBT guidance from their websites, the Register found.

Via Joe.My.God. There's some feeling in the comments at Joe's post that this is the work of Mike Pence. It's possible, but in this so-called "administration" there are enough bigots, both in office and hanging around the edges, not to mention in the halls of Congress, that it's not even necessary for Pence to get involved -- after all, Sonny Perdue is no prize himself.

The article is worth reading -- it goes into detail about how this fits into the Trump regime's attacks on LGBT Americans, which, after all, has historically been one of the favored targets of dictator wannabes.