Penna Dexter

President Trump has been reversing destructive policies and replacing radical appointees put in place by his predecessor. He missed one opportunity in nominating Chai Feldblum to serve a third term – a five-year term — on the Equal Opportunity Employment Commission. The Conservative Review calls her the previous administration’s “most radical sexual identity movement leader.”

The EEOC was created under the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to combat workplace discrimination. The agency is often called upon to adjudicate struggles between our constitutional freedom of religion and gay rights in the workplace. It tends not to wait for the courts, but to push ahead with its own ideological preferences.

Conservative Review’s editor Daniel Horowitz describes today’s EEOC as “the tip of the spear of the radical racial and sexual identity movements”. He points out that “…they apply the laws unequally for classes of citizens loved by the American Left at the expense of the classes out of favor with the political elites.”

Chai Feldblum’s re-nomination is terrible news for Christian wedding vendors and, really, all businesses that operate according to their religious convictions.

Ms. Feldblum, an open lesbian and former Georgetown University law professor, has publically advocated that sex discrimination in current law be redefined to include sexual orientation and gender identity. She was a lead architect of President Obama’s transgender directive for public schools.

She was an author of ENDA, the Employment Non-Discrimination Act. She believes that religious liberty exemptions should be extremely narrow and famously answered a question about the rights of Christians to hire employees of their own choosing with the phrase: “Gays win; Christians lose.”

She wrote, “we are in a zero-sum game: a gain for one side necessarily entails a corresponding loss for the other side.” In these questions, she continued, “I am convinced society should come down on the side of protecting the liberty of LGBT people.”

The administration should withdraw this nomination and find “a more mainstream candidate” for the EEOC.