Obama Nominates Lesbian Activist to Employment Post

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Posted by Administrator in Politics on November 12, 2009  |  0 Comments More from this author  |

President Obama has nominated a lesbian activist to serve as a member of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, according to The Bulletin.

The White House recently announced that Obama nominated lawyer Chai Feldblum to serve as one of five Commissioners on the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

Feldblum is a professor of law specializing in gay studies at Georgetown University who formerly worked for the American Civil Liberties Union and the pro-homosexual Human Rights Campaign Fund.

"She has also worked on advancing lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights and has been a leading expert on the Employment Nondiscrimination Act," according to a White House statement.

Over the last 20 years, Feldblum has played a crucial part in creating equality in the LGBT community. She is the primary author of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), prohibiting workplace discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity.

Feldblum says that religious people who run businesses or operate other institutions have no right to deny services to LGBT 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," she said.

Feldblum is also known for signing onto a radical online petition "Beyond Same-Sex Marriage: A New Strategic Vision for All Our Families and Relationships," which advocates for polygamy, as well.

The manifesto said same-sex marriage should be "just one option on a menu of choices that people have about the way they construct their lives."

Feldblum clerked for the Supreme Court justice who authored the Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion almost 30 years ago.

If confirmed, she will serve a five-year term.