{"id":505977,"date":"2017-01-23T16:57:36","date_gmt":"2017-01-23T16:57:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glaad.logalt.net\/tap\/sonny-perdue\/"},"modified":"2023-04-21T22:29:48","modified_gmt":"2023-04-21T22:29:48","slug":"sonny-perdue","status":"publish","type":"gap","link":"https:\/\/glaad.org\/gap\/sonny-perdue\/","title":{"rendered":"Sonny Perdue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pfaw.org\/blog-posts\/agriculture-department-must-take-lgbtq-equality-seriously\/\">An internal memo<\/a> revealed that the Department of Agriculture plans for a massive civil rights reorganization including eliminating the position of Deputy Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights and the whole Policy Division within the Office of Compliance, Policy, Training and Cultural Transformation while having no permanent civil rights leadership on staff.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u2014<a 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