An LGBT Inclusive Cabinet?

I really can't believe that it's already December again. What ever happened to the year dragging by? I swear, when I was a kid I counted down the days to Winter Break, Christmas, Spring Break, and Summer Vacation and they were endless. It took forever for those times to finally arrive, and then of course once they had they flew by.

Now everything goes so fast. I know that this is just a consequence of growing up and getting older and that everyone experiences it, but its still pretty jarring at times. One minute its New Year's Day and you're busy dreaming of all that the new year might bring and the next you're Christmas shopping again and wondering what you did with an entire year. It's crazy.

But, I digress. 365Gay has an article up on President-elect Obama's Nominee for Attorney General, Eric Holder, and The Human Rights Campaign's praise of his record on LGBT Civil Rights issues:

In a 1999 appearance before the House Judiciary Committee Holder called for LGBT inclusion in federal hate crime law, noting that currently the law “provides no coverage whatsoever for violent hate crimes committed because of bias based on the victim’s sexual orientation, gender or disability, and these crimes pose a serious problem for our nation.”

After eight years of the likes of John Ashcroft and Alberto Gonzales it's going to be pretty amazing to have someone like Holder in charge of the Justice Department.

In other news, the President-elect is said to be considering nominating the first openly gay Cabinet Secretary in the person of labor activist Mary Beth Maxwell, who is reportedly on the short list for Secretary of Labor.

How amazing would that be? Not only would we have an openly gay person serving in the President's Cabinet, we'd have a Labor Secretary who actually has fought for worker's rights! Maxwell has written for The Huffington Post on labor issues and reading through her pieces, I think she'd be the perfect person for the job.