It appears the Obama administration is poised to name a gay activist to the position of chief deputy to the assistant secretary of the Administration for Children and Families (ACF).
David Hansell is expected to be appointed to the post at ACF, a division of the Department of Health and Human Services responsible for federal programs that "promote the economic and social well-being of families, children, individuals, and communities."
Hansell served in leadership positions at Gay Men's Health Crisis, which actively lobbies for special rights for homosexuals.
Peter Sprigg, senior fellow for policy studies at the Family Research Council, said he is troubled by what Hansell would bring to the table.
"You're appointing someone who, most likely as a homosexual activist, wants to redefine the meaning of family away from its historic definition as being a unit formed by blood, marriage or adoption," he noted. "And someone who thinks that it's perfectly OK for children to be raised in deliberately motherless or deliberately fatherless households."
To illustrate the difference between major players at ACF, Dr. Wade Horn, appointed ACF Assistant Secretary by President George W. Bush, was a well-respected family advocate, a major proponent of abstinence education and a former head of the National Fatherhood Initiative.
The Obama administration has at least 35 openly gay political appointees -- and gay activists are yelling for more.
"Homosexual activists are complaining that their agenda is not being pressed fast enough because they haven't repealed the Defense of Marriage Act yet," he said. "And they haven't opened the military to homosexuals yet. So this is really only the beginning."
