WorldNetDaily finally got a scalp in its sad little anti-gay crusade.
For months, WND has ranted about the idea that 4-H groups in rural America should be inclusive of all children, repeating anti-gay attacks from anonymous 4-H leaders furious about the proposed concept of treating LGBT kids like everyone else. So it cheered when one person linked to the proposed policy lost his job, a 4-H official in Iowa.
Even though John-Paul Chaisson-Cardenas’ dismissal has not been officially linked to the proposed policy, WND took a victory lap anyway in an anonymously written Aug. 6 article, continuing to fearmonger about the now-abandoned proposal as “a stealth campaign to impose radical LGBTQ policies, including mandatory transgender bathrooms and pronoun usage.”
Needless to say, WND took a little time in its victory lap to praise itself: “As soon as WND got involved in this story, not only did the “Inclusion” document disappear from the USDA website, but even from the web pages of local 4-H leaders pushing for implementation of the LGBTQ policy, due to public backlash once it was made public. Today, virtually the only place it is still publicly available is on WND’s servers.” Which themselves may not be running very much longer.
WND also, laughably, benignly describes Liberty Counsel, which helped lead the attack against 4-H over the proposed policy “as a result of WND’s investigative efforts,” as merely a “non-profit legal group” when, in fact, it endeavors to perpetuate anti-LGBT discrimination.
This gay-bashing is what passes for “investigative journalism” at WND these days.