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Gender Identity and the EEOC

Gender Identity and the EEOC
President Barack Obama has nominated Chai Feldblum to serve a 5-year term on the Equal Employment Opportunities Commission (EEOC). “Feldblum’s nomination to the EEOC is another example of President Obama’s blatant disregard for religious liberty,” said California Family Council’s Ron Prentice. Feldblum graduated from Harvard Law School and has been a professor at the Georgetown University Law Center since 1991. According to Feldblum’s biography on Georgetown’s Web site, she has been a leading advocate and scholar in the areas of disability rights, health and welfare rights, lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights, and workplace issues.
Feldblum is a lesbian who worked extensively in the development of the Employment Nondiscrimination Act (ENDA). In a 2008 panel discussion hosted by the Family Research Council, Feldblum stated that she believes sexual orientation “rights” will ultimately overrule rights of conscience and freedom of speech in law.
Passage of nondiscrimination legislation – specific to sexual orientation – has been attempted since 1974 in the U.S. Congress. Currently, several bills promoting ENDA are circulating in the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives promoting ENDA. Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) is the author of HR 3017, and Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR) introduced S. 1584. 
Similar to the definition of gender in the California penal code (Section 422.46), passage of these and other bills would expand federal employment nondiscrimination law by defining “gender” to include a person’s real or perceived sex.   Although language in the federal legislation would currently exempt religious “organizations” and the military from ENDA laws, significant legal wrangling will ensue regarding the definition of a religious organization, as pro-gay activists target disagreement with homosexual, bisexual and transgender “rights” as hate speech.
Feldblum’s placement on the EEOC would further clarify President Obama’s objectives, leaving no doubt that his campaign claims regarding dialogue and compromise among conflicting worldviews were empty.  
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