Posted on 10/18/2009 8:10:25 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
President Barack Obama has nominated a lesbian activist lawyer to serve as a member of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
In a recent White House announcement, President Obama nominated Chai Feldblum, a professor of law (gay studies) at Georgetown University who formerly worked for the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the pro-homosexual Human Rights Campaign Fund, to serve as one of five Commissioners on the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. In the mid-1980s, Ms. Feldblum clerked for Supreme Court Justice Harry A. Blackmum, the liberal Supreme Court justice who authored the Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion.
“She has also worked on advancing lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) rights and has been a leading expert on the Employment Nondiscrimination Act,” said the White House’s Sept. 14 statement.
Throughout her career, Ms. Feldblum has played a major role in pushing the LGBT agenda in American culture for the last 20 years. She is the primary author of the controversial Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) which prohibits workplace discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, gender identity, and disability for civilian nonreligious employers with over 15 employees. A well-known gay strategist, she advocates the use of “incrementalism” in achieving the gay agenda, using bills such as ENDA to bring about change in the workplace, then move to housing and public accommodations.
In her paper, “Moral Conflict and Liberty: Gay Rights and Religion,” Ms. Feldblum argues for legislative and judicial “outcomes that will allow LGBT people to live lives of honesty and safety in today’s society.”
She also believes that religious people who run businesses or operate other institutions have no right to deny services to gays, lesbians, bisexuals or transgendered persons. “As a general matter, once a religious person or institution enters the stream of commerce by operating an enterprise such as a doctor’s office, hospital, bookstore, hotel, treatment center and so on, I believe the enterprise must adhere to a norm of nondiscrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity.”
According to Andrea Lafferty, executive director of the Traditional Values Coalition, “this means she wants the gay agenda to trump the First Amendment and religious freedom to impose the gay agenda on all Americans – including those with strongly held religious beliefs about homosexuality.”
Peter LaBarbera, president of Americans for Truth About Homosexuality, agrees. "Chai Feldblum is on record saying that the battle between our religious freedoms and homosexual so-called rights is a zero sum game. She says she can't think of a case where the religious rights — in other words, our moral right to oppose homosexuality, our First Amendment freedom — trump their gay rights. So, effectively, Chai Feldblum is for superior rights for homosexuals, and I think that's very dangerous for our country."
Ms. Feldblum has also been widely criticized for signing onto a radical online petition, the “Beyond Same-Sex Marriage: A New Strategic Vision for All Our Families and Relationships,” which advocates for polygamy and calls for a "new vision" for securing governmental and private institutional recognition of "diverse kinds of partnerships."
Among the stated "partnerships" the petition seeks to protect is "households in which there is more than one conjugal partner."
Same-sex marriage, the manifesto said, should be “just one option on a menu of choices that people have about the way they construct their lives” and advocates for “many other kinds of kinship relationships, households and families” to be afforded equal recognition.
“Once again, President Obama has demonstrated there is no one too radical to serve in his administration,” Ms. Lafferty said. “By picking Feldblum, he has signaled to his many fringe group fans on the Left that he will help them accomplish all of their goals to undermine the Constitution and overturn biblical morality and decency in America.”
The EEOC enforces federal anti-discrimination law in the workplace. Ms. Feldblum’s nomination was sent to the U.S. Senate on Sept. 15. If confirmed, she will serve a five year term.
that’s one special rock he keeps finding these people under....
How about any time the Constitution's free exercise clause is applicale?
As I said then, "You can't tell who the true conservatives are without a scorecard."
IIRC she’s also a loon on the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Another member of the “Anything Goes” party.
That's the problem. WHAT vetting process! We haven't even seen his birth certificate yet. We don't even know if he's a citizen.
Guilty.
But I bet every damn one of them have a small bottle of Purell hand sanitizer in their pocket for this administration.
“This administration is nothing more than an open sewer of corrupt governance.”
Oh, it’s a lot worse than that. Mere corruption would seem like Sunday school in comparison with these grotesquely Evil scoundrels.
All leftist thought, from the limousine liberalism of a George Clooney to the mass murders of Mao, Stalin, or Pol Pot, is of and from Satan. It is a contaminant in the human cognosphere, not a natural component of it.
Intellectual dishonesty is not merely the hallmark, the metier, the forte, the oeuvre of the liberal, it is the very sine qua non of liberalism. Compared to this, hypocrisy is a mere spear-carrier in the liberal’s limping army of sophistries, prevarication, and false moral equivalences.
The liberal himself somehow manages to suppress awareness of his own detachment from both reality and honesty, and in fact spends great volumes of energy swanning about in high dudgeon, gushing forth banshee wails of rage at the purported dishonesty and malice of his opponents. Spraying poison in all directions like a rabid cobra on meth, the liberal walks closed-minded through a world in which only he is open-minded, bigoted through a world in which only he is tolerant, ignorant through a world in which only he is educated, consumed by rage, hatred, and malice through a world in which only he is kind and nice.
What’s WRONG with these people?! They seem like run-amok two-year-olds! This POLYGAMY idea should meld nicely with the GAY MARRIAGE agenda... Wonder how that will work as far as SOCIAL SECURITY SPOUSAL BENEFITS?! Sounds like it could get pretty tangled... not to mention COSTLY (to a system that’s already in trouble).
SOMEBODY wake up AMERICA! We need to put a stop to the craziness!
The agenda doesn’t have very much to do with getting additional benefits.
It has everything to do with destroying the family, the traditional culture, and the nation.
The common thread among all these controversial appoinments is their anti-capitalism. Isn’t that interesting.
“Why is the end of her nose shaped like a shovel?”
She sweeps the carpet, too?
Today, Obama's Administration looks like the Star Wars cantina scene.
“Today, Obama’s Administration looks like the Star Wars cantina scene.”
Wish I’d said that.
Do you think it was true what the cynics said, that the GOP was only playing up culture war issues it didn't really believe in?
After seeing Dick Cheney come out for gay "marriage," I'm starting to think so.
The radicals have decided to exploit conservatives' defenses of capitalism by taking over big business via anti-discrimination law and diversity ideology. Since business interests are a main player in the GOP, the GOP is now silent.
Libertarians are also more eager to proselytize than moral conservatives, so they've won more converts. Forget the fact that the advance of gays means bigger government, they want personal license!
And let's not forget the role of pornography in breaking down American morals.
With a specialized schnozzle like that, she could only feed in a very specialized environment, like Washington DC.
Agreed, that their agenda is anti-family, anti-church, and anti-ANYTHING that is of “traditional value”; but also pretty convinced that MUCH of their agenda has to do with getting $$$$ via Social Security benefits for spouses, as well as INHERITANCE rights and other benefits, like health care, visitation rights, etc. What will be interesting will be seeing how quickly those “gay marriages” dissolve and how much their divorces will clog the courts...
Also, we heard that somebody in California wants to OUTLAW DIVORCE for ALL people, heterosexual as well as homo... And somebody in the current REGIME in D.C. wants to do away with MARRIAGE and only permit “civil unions” for ALL people. They just cannot leave the NORMAL CULTURE/SOCIETY alone, can they?!, in their lust for having their deviant lifestyle being seen as “equal”...
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