Activist vetted for Labor Secretary would be first openly gay Cabinet member

[Are_grits_groceries]

The Wall Street Journal reports on Obama's possible pick for Labor Secretary, Mary Beth Maxwell:

For the rainbow cabinet of the nation's first African American president, Mary Beth Maxwell is the perfect labor secretary you've probably never heard of: a gay woman, community organizer and labor leader with an adopted African American son. And this founding executive director of American Rights at Work is about to get the full-court press.

Maxwell already had the strong backing of former Rep. David Bonior, who despite repeated attempts to get his name removed from consideration continues to be on the short list of potential labor secretaries. Bonior, 63 years old, says it is time for his generation to turn over power to a new generation, and Maxwell, whose labor-backed organization pushes for expanded collective bargaining rights, is his pick.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/12/02/mary-beth-maxwell-labor-s_n_147942.html

Let's hope. And watch fundies heads explode? Are there any unexploded heads left?(needed: an exploding head smilie)

[Behind the Aegis]

1. It may not be just fundie heads exploding.

We shall see.

[Divine Discontent]

2. ha! good point!

we shall see indeed! God bless her, I pray she gets it, and these false types in religion wake up every day thinking which leadership position is gonna end up with another gay person in it!

She sounds like great human being!

[elleng]

3. Is that a threat

or a promise?

[Behind the Aegis]

5. ????

[terrya]

4. That would be fantastic!

:thumbsup:

[Terran]

6. excellent

Though I thnk she may not be the only GLBT person in the cabinet (HS Sec'y Napolitano, maybe?).