Kudos to Utah Lt. Gov. Deidre Henderson for speaking up when the anti-diversity police of the Trump administration removed from the Arlington National Cemetery website a list of notable women who are buried there.
That list included the name of Seraph Young Ford, a proud daughter of Utah who was the first woman in the United States to cast a ballot under a law of universal suffrage.
As Henderson pointed out, including Ford in a list of notable Americans wasn’t a sop to diversity. It was a proper observation of a key moment in our history.
It was the special effort to remove her name, along with posts about Navajo Code Talkers, Black Medal of Honor winners and other notable Americans, that wrongly targeted women and minorities.
The government website cleansing was so ignorant that, for a time, there was no mention of the Enola Gay, the nickname of the aircraft that dropped the first atomic bomb used in war, apparently because some algorithm disliked any use of the word “gay.”
Seeing how many Utah Republicans — including Henderson’s boss, Gov. Spencer Cox — have surrendered their manhood in obeisance to Donald Trump, it is refreshing to see Henderson standing up for what is right.
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