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.
Is there anyone who is normal?
The man is determined to destroy our American culture one step at a time.
“..professor of law (gay studies) at Georgetown University....”
What is happening at this Catholic University????
Does this guy know ANYONE who is NOT an academic weirdo, a lifestyle weirdo, a Communist, or any combination thereof?!
You can kiss the first amendment goodbye. For Christians that is.
The man is determined to destroy our American culture one step at a time.
Yeah, he is sure making a case to get the anti christ award next.
What a nice mix of f-up people
They key is if ZERO knows anyone normal — from his appointments it sure doesn’t look like it.
Georgetown was in the vanguard of disgrace when it comes to Catholic Institutions that have gotten into bed with Satan. (Notre Dame, DePaul, etc.)
Unfortunately, he is both determined and is succeeding. These kinds of appointments are music to the ears of the liberal left-wing media. It brings a chorus of applause from MoveOn etc. Where are the conservatives and traditionalists in Congress? Are there any remaining? There was a time when the D’rats were afraid of engaging the culture war. They were on the run. What happened? Where is the RNC? Where are the ads? It’s a damn downhill, day by day.
DC is now the STAR WARS bar personified...
How odd that this person could slip through the vetting process...
>>They key is if ZERO knows anyone normal — from his appointments it sure doesn’t look like it.<<
Worse — he THINKS these people ARE normal and represent America and American attitudes.
“What is happening at this Catholic University????”
Don’t they have a large international studies program there?
This administration is nothing more than an open sewer of corrupt governance.
Good statement and so true.
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