Obama Makes Polygamy a 21st-Century Issue

No sooner had we celebrated the departure of Barack Obama's Green Jobs Czar, Mr. Van Jones, because he was a Communist, we heard about another embarrassing Obama appointment. The President nominated for commissioner of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (known as the EEOC) a woman who signed a radical manifesto endorsing polygamy.


We thought our nation had settled the polygamy issue a century and a half ago, but this nomination makes it a 21st-century controversy. Obama's EEOC appointment to the EEOC, a lesbian law-school professor named Chai Feldblum, signed a manifesto in 2006 endorsing polygamous households ("in which there is more than one conjugal partner"). This document, entitled Beyond Same-Sex Marriage: A New Strategic Vision, argues that traditional marriage "should not be legally and economically privileged above all others." The American people obviously think otherwise, and current laws reflect our wishes.

Barack Obama has named another pro-polygamy member of his Administration. His Regulatory Czar, Cass Sunstein, wrote a book in 2008 called [Nudge:] Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth and Happiness in which he urges that "the word marriage would no longer appear in any laws, and marriage licenses would no longer be offered or recognized by any level of government." Sunstein argues that traditional marriage discriminates against single people by imposing "economic and material disadvantages." He says, "Why not leave people's relationships to their own choices?"

In this same book, Cass Sunstein says, "the state owns the rights to body parts of people who are dead or in certain hopeless conditions, and [the government] can remove their organs without asking anyone's permission."

I ask you, what kind of strange people are in Barack Obama's administration?

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