Change Watch: Chai Feldblum, Commissioner, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
by Jacob Wolf
November 17, 2009
Nominee for Commissioner, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
NOMINEE: Chai Feldblum
BIRTH DATE: c. 1959
EDUCATION: B.A. in Ancient Studies and Religion, Barnard College, 1979. J.D. from Harvard Law School, 1985.
FAMILY: Lives with a same-sex “domestic partner,” Georgetown Law Professor Nan Hunter. Previously lived in a “nonsexual domestic partnership” with three other women who pledged to care for each other.
EXPERIENCE: Professor of Law, Georgetown Law School; Director of the Law Center’s Federal Legislation and Administrative Clinic; Co-Director of Workplace Flexibility 2010; law clerk for First Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Frank M. Coffin; law clerk for Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun; legislative counsel to the AIDS Project of the ACLU, 1988-1990; Human Rights Campaign Fund, 1986-1987.
Equal Employment Opportunities Experience: Was the lead drafter for the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, and the ADA Amendments Act of 2008. Has written numerous articles and books on the subject of employment, but only on the subject of homosexuals in the workplace—no writings on other minorities other than the disabled.
Homosexual Agenda
Same-sex “Marriage”
Signatory of the petition “Beyond Same-Sex Marriage,” which reads in part:
- “We hope to move beyond the narrow confines of marriage politics as they exist in the United States today.”
- Feldblum openly admitted to supporting polygamy, arguing that “committed, loving households in which there is more than one conjugal partner” and “queer couples who decide to jointly create and raise a child with another queer person or couple, in two households” should be recognized as loving families.
- Thoughts on conservatives: “the entire legal framework of civil rights for all people is under assault by the Right, coded not only in terms of sexuality, but also in terms of race, gender, class, and citizenship status” and they are “generating an agenda of fear, retrenchment, and opposition to the very idea of a caring society.”
- “Marriage should be one of many avenues through which households, families, partners, and kinship relationships can gain access to the support of a caring civil society.”
- “Our vision is the creation of communities in which we are encouraged to explore the widest range of non-exploitive, non-abusive possibilities in love, gender, desire and sex.” http://www.beyondmarriage.org/full_statement.html
On Homosexuality
Feldblum believes that one’s “identity as a gay person would have little real meaning if you were consistently precluded from having sex with your same-sex partner.” She also argued in her writings that an evangelical Christian hotel owner who asked homosexual patrons to not have sex in his establishment would be engaging in discrimination. Felblum continued with her pro-homosexual agenda by stating, “I believe that heterosexuality and homosexuality are morally neutral characteristics (similar to having red hair or brown hair), and I believe that acting consistently with one’s sexual orientation is a morally good act…And, in making the decision in this zero sum game, I am convinced society should come down on the side of protecting the liberty of LGBT people.” Chai Feldblum, “Moral Conflict and Liberty: Gay Rights and Liberty,” Becket Fund, n.d. http://www.becketfund.org/files/4bce5.pdf.
“Gay sex is morally good,” Feldblum said. “Now you may think that might be a little crazy to go out there and say gay sex is good. But think a second. Society definitely believes that heterosexual sex is good. Right. Heterosexual sex within a certain framework — marriage — I mean, you can’t get more dewy-eyed and romantic in this society about how wonderful that is…”If you’re not being cynical for the moment, I think that does reflect a correct understanding that sex is often a basic building block for intimacy and that intimacy and connections within couples and within families are integral building blocks for a healthy society.” Chai Feldblum, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOghvpWTl_U.
Sexual License vs. Religious Liberty
Feldblum founded the “Moral Values Project,” which states that the following are immoral activities: “when transgender people are not assisted in living in the gender of their choice; when intersex infants are subjected to genital surgery; or when young women are denied effective contraception — our society is not living up to its important moral values.” Chai Feldblum, “The Moral Values Project,” The Moral Values Project, 2005. http://www.law.georgetown.edu/moralvaluesproject/.
Was the lead drafter for ENDA, which she would be responsible for enforcing if she is confirmed to the EEOC. When questioned on the rights of Christians hiring employees of their choice, Feldblum stated “Gays win; Christians lose.” Thomas Peters, “Chai’s ENDA vs. Religious Liberty,” American Principles Project, October 26, 2009. http://www.americanprinciplesproject.org/blogs/chais-enda-vs-religious-liberty.html.
Similarly, Feldblum, when questioned about how she would decide when religious liberty and homosexual “rights” conflict, she would have “a hard time coming up with any case in which religious liberty should win.” “Obama’s EEOC pick, Chai Feldblum: Sexual liberty wins in conflict with religious liberty,” Alliance Defense Fund, September 14, 2009. http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/09/14/obama-picks-chai-r-feldblum-for-eeoc-commission/.
Defined the battle plan for homosexual activists in the “fight for equality”: “As a practical matter, changing the public’s perception of the morality of gay sex and of changing one’s gender may ultimately be necessary to achieve true equality for LGBT people…” “Obama’s EEOC pick, Chai Feldblum: Sexual liberty wins in conflict with religious liberty,” Alliance Defense Fund, September 14, 2009. http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/09/14/obama-picks-chai-r-feldblum-for-eeoc-commission/.
Domestic Partnerships for All
In perhaps her most radical paper, Chai Feldblum “nonsexual domestic partnerships” should be respected and “supported” by the State, and benefits should extend to them and believes these tax-supported partnerships can consist of people who are merely “really good friends.” Other excerpts from the article include:
- “Moreover, to the extent that the struggle for marriage equality focuses solely on achieving the right to marry because that is what a pure equality discourse calls for, the movement will also miss the chance to make a moral case for supporting the range of other creative ways in which we currently construct our intimate relations outside of marriage. And that would be as much of a missed opportunity as would be the lost opportunity of convincing the general public of the moral equivalence of gay and heterosexual sex . . .”
- “I believe homosexuality is as morally neutral as heterosexuality and, moreover, I believe gay love embodies the same moral goods as heterosexual love. My agenda would be for the rest of the country to believe those things as well.”
- It is unfortunate that “society fails to acknowledge the wide array of non-marital intimate social structures that we as humans have ingeniously constructed to negotiate and make sense of the world.”
- Revealing that she is unsure about how she would decide in regards to the Catholic Archdiocese of Boston being forced to grant adoption to same-sex “couples”: the “state should be permitted to withhold tax exempt status, as in the Bob Jones case, from a group that is clearly contrary to the state’s policy. But to go further and say to a group that it is not permitted to engage in a particular type of work, such as adoptions, unless it also does adoptions for gay couples, that’s a heavier hand from the state. And I would hope we could have a dialogue about this and not just accusations of bad faith from either side.” Chai Feldblum, “Gay is Good: The Moral Case for Marriage Equality and More,” Moral Values Project, 2005. http://www.law.georgetown.edu/moralvaluesproject/Library/Papers/Feldblum_Gay_is_Good_Marriage.pdf.
Abortion
Clerked for Justice Harry A. Blackmun, the author of the infamous Roe v. Wade decision, which allowed for the universal “right to abortion” in the United States.
Patrick Reilly of the Cardinal Newman Society said about Feldblum that “the news of Feldblum’s nomination is especially noteworthy for Catholics given the EEOC’s recent infringement on Catholic Belmont Abbey College’s religious liberty by claiming it discriminated against women when it removed contraceptive coverage from its employee health insurance plan…If confirmed by the Senate, Feldblum would serve on the EEOC for five years and could decide cases related to abortion.” Steven Ertelt, “Obama’s Pro-Abortion Nominee to EEOC Panel, Chai Feldblum, Faces Opposition,” LifeNews, October 21, 2009. http://www.lifenews.com/nat5594.html.
Authorship
Feldblum has authored or contributed to the following books: The Moral Values Project: Deploying Moral Discourse for Gay Equality; The Federal Gay Rights Bill: From Bella to ENDA; Rights & Wrongs: Morality in the Gay Marriage Debate; Moral Conflict and Liberty: Gay Rights and Religion; The Right to Define One’s Own Concept of Existence: What Lawrence Can Mean for Intersex and Transgender People; Gay is Good: The Moral Case for Marriage Equality and More; Gay People, Trans People, Women: Is It All About Gender?.
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Comments
As a watchdog of the family, I applaud you for watching these DOGS.
Roy
Wow. After reading this blog and watching Chai Feldblum on the video…I’m dumbfounded. You think the election of a president is not serious stuff? Obama has done more to push the liberal agenda than all the Kennedy’s and Clinton’s put together.
Time to wake up people! The encumbents in our government need to go. From BOTH parties. Neither the Democrats nor the Republicans represent conservative, moral values in our government.
Obviously with Obama being an idiot, he is prone to search out all the other idiots to (help?) with his insanity….
Chai seems to be on the side of unequivical isanity when she says homosexual relationships make good families….I suggest she go look at some of the children in these so called families….they (the children) look like strangers from another planet who are being exploited by the insanity of the adults (?) in the idiot label of family…
What RIGHT does she have to think that her agenda is more important than mine as a Christian!!! To say that “gay rights” would win out over Christian rights is appalling. May she and her ilk be defeated by the all too silent MAJORITY!!!!!!
How wonderful it is not to have to pretend, to justify one’s behavior that are deviant from the norms of society and self destructive self destructive, self indulgent acts that only build a swamp of poison.
She is out of line and way off with the Bible!!!!! I would not vote for her.
A BA in religion and has no idea what religion is about. She also has no idea of a morally active life – anything goes with her. How did she end up as head of the EEOC – when she definitely has an agenda that does not include over 80% of the people of the U.S.
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Chai Feldblum is so radically biased I believe she cannot possibly serve in a position that represents the will of the American people. I encourage any politician who will have a say in her confirmation to oppose it.
These people need to realize that this country was FOUNDED on RELIGIOUS, not sexual freedom! We as a nation should NOT be forced to indulge those who defy the laws of NATURE due to deeply desturbed mind sets! People who are desturbed should be given counciling, not indulgence. There are people who have sex with small children, but we don’t indulge them!
Christian values are what helped make this country as great as it is! If these people don’t believe me? They should take a look at how some of our laws closely resemble “The 10 Commandments” from the Bible!
Thank you for your excellent work.
This person obviously does not reflect our countries values, but her own. We should stop people like this from positions of leadership over people she does not represent.
Whose standard of good and evil, moral and immoral is Ms. Feldblum using to try to dictate the thoughts and actions of the American people; her own subjective standard or the righteous, just and unchangable standard of the One who created the heavens, the earth and all things that exist in it?
chai feldblum….The wisdom of fools.
Attacking christianity and religeous freedom.
Chai Feldblum and Obama and the homosexual agenda are trying to force everyone into accepting the UN-NATURAL choice as the new NATURAL and make the NATURAL as UN-NATURAL or there is something wrong with you…..Please…..common sense even tells you this is wrong.
To try and legislate laws to force the United States into this type of thinking is wrong.
Chai Feldblum is afraid of what God has spoken, and does not like it, and would like to remove the pages from the Holy scriptures that speak out against this sinful choice that she is involved in as well as others to ease their consciences.
The wages of sin is death (spiritual death)….so these people have the freedom to make that choice….no one is stopping them, but they do not want anyone warn them (feedom of speach and religion) about this choice (which is a true act of love to warn someone that is not living correctly). so they will not eternally parish.
Chai Feldblum and Obama think that they are above the supreme law of God and that their wisdom is better for living because it is what they want and it is ok to force this agenda upon the United States of America….neither one of them could possibly understand the full meaning of Love and what the scriptures teach about this subject. The love of a true christian would try to warn and help if help is allowed, but this agenda is calling that HATE, because they want their ears tickled with what they want to hear and not by what is the truth.
True truth does not cause problems….It is those that would distort the true truth that cause divisions and confusions. (So is this happening now? Just recently in the past decade, where this was never an issue before?)
If a homosexual wants to be a homosexual…..nothing is stopping them from doing so…it is their choice to live that life style, but it does have its consequences.
They have the same rights as everyone does, but do not force everyone to accept what your choice is…..Everyone makes choices good and bad, and they all have consequences, good and bad. Bad choices and the negative consequeces that follow that choice should NEVER be forced through the American legislation process and levied upon the US citizens that are trying to follow their guide through life, that being the Holy Scriptures of God (What our great country was founded upon).
You cannot directly overthrow what our constitution allows us but, George Washington warned about such things taking place in our country.
“The Constitution of the United States, and the laws made uner it, must mark the line of my offial conduct.” (Ibid., 31:9)…..Is this true today? Who is out of line with their conduct today?
“Towards the preservation fo your government…it is requisite…that you resist with care the spirit of innovation upon its principles, however specious the pretexts.
One method of assault may be to effect, in the forms of the Constitution, alterations which will impair the energy of the system, and thus to undermine what cannot be directly overthrown.” (Ibid., 35:225.)
The “energy of the system” is impaired at just about every level imaginable and there are those who are seeking to undermine our United States Constitution as we speak with agendas that are trying to divide our nation.
Please pay attention to what is going on around us and lets get back on track and recognize what is pure, lovely and right. Be humble and not selfish and stand firm on love and what is truly in the best intrests of humanity in the spirit of Gods love.
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PLEASE get that Chai Feldblum out of the government. She is Bad News for my grandchildren who have values. Her values are lower than a snake’s belly!!!
I am asking you to NOT confirm Chai Feldblum for the EEOC position. Her views are radically opposed to the majority of US citizens. If she wishes to live the lifestyle she speaks of, she has the freedom to do so, but she has no right to push her views down everybody elses throats as a government official.
I agree with all the above comments! It is scary that Obama RUSHED into office with all these agendas “up his sleeves”. My question is….Do you think Obama might be secretly gay or bisexual? Where did he find this ….. ###, Chai Feldblum? All those perveted lies of satan sound so awful coming out of her mouth! I saw a Gay Pride parade in Kanas City, Missouri a few years back and it was very sad to see these people walking down the road to Hell. It’s impossible to explain how sick I felt watching their actions! All I can say is that we as Christians, need to intercede for their souls in prayer. Just like the people in the Bible in the Sodom and Gomorrah, they have been taken over and blinded by their LUST. Before you know it, the word Sodom will be taken out of the dictionary because it says, “City of ancient Palestine, destroyed by God for it’s wickedness.” (Genesis 18 – 21) I watched an old TV show called, “In Search Of” with Leonard Nemoy and it said that God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah because they did not practice hospitality! Can you beieve that nonsense? What Bible were they reading? I’m not sure if anyone will even read this but, I am saddened by what is happening with the USA and the only way I see us getting back our country is falling on our faces before the Lord God and crying out for Mercy and Forgivness! We need a NEW THIRD party besides the Dem. and Rep. and an inner Civil War and take back what has been perverted. I’m not saying that the USA was perfect but it was the best country in the whole world! We have done more to spread the Gospel of Christ throughout the world than any other country and for the time being, our money still says, “In God We Trust”. For the time being, I can say say these words because of ‘Freedom’, but for how much longer? The Bible says, “Satan roams the world night and day, looking for souls to conquer.” Looks like he has been working overtime because he knows that it is his last hour! Prayer and Hope – that is what we can hold on to! Sincerely, Sheryl
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