The Obama administration recently hired a transgender bureaucrat. Chait analyzes the Christianist right's response:
The interesting thing is that there's no attempt to show that the administration employed any sort of quota or affirmative action program. It just hired a person who's transgendered. The religious right obviously opposes that, but they can't say so. Thus they have come to employ words like "quota" to mean something entirely different than their literal meaning.
The Dish 