Just popped up at Maggie and Brian’s Online Hate Emporium:
Washington, DC – The National Organization for Marriage (NOM) announced today that John Eastman, a distinguished Constitutional law scholar, is taking on the role of Chairman of the Board for NOM.
Dr. John Eastman is the former Dean of Chapman University Law School in California and is the Founding Director of the Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence, a public interest law firm associated with the Claremont Institute. He has participated in over 50 cases in our nation’s highest courts, including such landmark cases as the Pledge of Allegiance case, the Boy Scouts of America case, the Ohio school vouchers case, the Kelo case involving property takings, and the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act case. Dr. Eastman is a former clerk to United States Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. He received his J.D. from the University of Chicago and a Ph.D. in government and political philosophy from Claremont Graduate School.
Brian Brown, President of NOM, stated, “John Eastman is one of America’s foremost constitutional scholars and has distinguished himself as a fierce advocate for families and religious liberty. As a legal scholar, he has participated in dozens of cases before our nation’s highest courts, including the United States Supreme Court. When important constitutional principles are on the line, people frequently turn to John Eastman to advocate a conservative, pro-family position. He will be a great asset to NOM.”
John Eastman stated, “Marriage has quite correctly been described as a bedrock of civilization. Protecting the institution of marriage is a critically important issue, and I’m honored to join such distinguished company on the Board of such a phenomenally effective organization as the National Organization for Marriage.”
Maggie Gallagher, the previous Chairman of the Board, stated, “My original intention in co-founding the National Organization for Marriage was to launch a politically sophisticated national activist organization to fight for the views of millions of Americans who believe that marriage is and should remain the union of husband and wife. I think it’s fair to say that NOM has been launched, and is now far more successful than even I dreamed (and I dreamed big!). I’m grateful to NOM’s President Brian Brown for leading this organization, and the addition of an eminent public intellectual like John Eastman to the NOM team is a great sign as we move forward to the battles ahead.”
“I will remain on the NOM board, and continue to work on specific projects for NOM, as well as taking on some additional outside projects I’ve long deferred, such as finishing my book Debating Same-Sex Marriage¸ which I’ve been working on for Oxford University Press with Prof. John Corvino,” Gallagher added.
She just wants to spend more time with her family, maybe. Does the new board chair appear in public without a wedding ring? Does he refuse to appear in public with his husband? Or is that just Maggie?
I’ve heard Eastman on the radio. I think he’s still kind of a bigot–but he’s smarter and therefore possibly more dangerous than Gallagher is.
I wonder if Mrs. Srivistav’s masters are finally starting to notice that their spokeswoman for “traditional marriage” has a very non-traditional marriage.
Working to tear apart loving gay families is not “pro-family” or a “fierce advocate for families.” Nor can we ever condone or accept the sinful idea that voting away the civil rights of other Americans is “religious liberty.” On the contrary, all of these immoral behaviors are harmful, destructive and makes our nation weaker. As long as strident anti-gay pressure groups keep redefining immorality, they will lose the “war” they hoisted on us.
On another note, I hope that shrill anti-gay activist Gallagher takes some time to get to know Christ and soon renounces her sin of homophobia. It’s never too late! I’m praying for her. God bless her!
It isn’t that Maggot Gagginwhore wants more time with her family. It’s that NOM wants to get her gay-bashing book published before the elections.
Would a truly respected “distinguished Constitutional law scholar” really want to be chairman of NOM?
Richard,
Remember this is same part of the political spectrum that considers Ed Meese “a distinguished Constiutional Law scholar”.
And my computer is going to explode due the fact I put Ed Meese and “scholar” in the same sentence.
I will forever be puzzled by the desire to “protect the INSTITUTION of marriage” by denying marriage recognition to people who WANT to be married. What they want to protect is the world they (and we) have always known – marriage means “man and woman”. I can understand that. Like in the days of my youth when women were secretaries and homemakers and men worked the corporate world and heavy labor/machinery. That has changed and women are long-haul drivers and corporate giants and working on road crews. Our comfortable little idea of the world changed. We survived. Providing civil and legal recognition for gay couples is a change that will not shake the planet to its core; it is survivable.
What they are desperate to protect is their bigoted ideas of the world and they use God to reinforce those ideas. Fundies and evangelicals have always been against any sort of civil recognition advancements. Their history is a disgusting litany of anti-equality for so many “other” people/Americans. They truly have no reason to be proud of how they behave. We are just one more “enemy” on the list of how to generate a generous source of income for their leaders so they don’t have to get real jobs.
Why is it nobody has ever seen Srivastav’s husband or children? Is she so ashamed?
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