Chai Feldblum, a respected professor of law at Georgetown and also President Obama’s nominee for the Equal Employment Opportunities Commission (EEOC), has been approved by the Senate health committee and will be moving on to full Senate vote.

Back in 2004, she outlined her strategy for strengthening and expanding gay rights:

“There is a war that needs to be fought and it’s not a war overseas where we’re killing people in the name of liberating them,” Feldblum said. “It is a war right here at home where we need to convince people that morality demands full equality for gay people.”

In 2006 Feldbulm signed a document that she is trying to distance herself from.  That document called for the recognition of all types of marriages, including those between three or more partners.

Feldbulm has also been criticized by the right for suggesting the sexual identity rights should always trump religious rights.

Needless to say, some Republicans may make her confirmation hearings quite interesting.

(Photo courtesy Georgetown University, Georgetown Law)

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