The Right Wing and its smear machine is at it again. One of President Obama's nominees needs your help.

President Obama has nominated Chai Feldblum to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). Feldblum has had an exemplary career culminating in her current role as a Full Professor of Law at Georgetown University and Director of the  Federal Legislation and Administrative Clinic.

But since her nomination, she has been vilified by the Right Wing, and attacked specifically by the Catholic Right Wing. In an editorial on CatholicOnline, Deacon Keith Fournier wrote:

Founier is essentially saying that Feldbaum's advocacy of basic human rights under the law somehow threatens the very fabric of the nation. We must counter this hysterical nonsense.

Show your support by signing this petition, and contacting your elected representitives.

The Catholic Right is using this issue to deny basic civil rights to an entire class of people. They need to be reminded of the words of the Catechism Catholic Church, the principal teaching document of our faith, with respect to LGBT people:

"They must be accepted with respect, compassion, and sensitivity. Every sign of unjust discrimination in their regard should be avoided. These persons are called to fulfill God's will in their lives and, if they are Christians, to unite to the sacrifice of the Lord's Cross the difficulties they may encounter..." (2358)

Please show your support of Professor Feldblum by signing the petition.

For more information on the discredited and homophobic nature of the attacks, see the MediaMatters article.