John Eastman, Pro-Trump Jan. 6 Conspirator, & His Anti-LGBTQ+ History
became chairman of the board of the National Organization for Marriage, a group with the primary mission of opposing marriage equality, although it has taken up some other conservative causes too.
NOM’s website still lists him as chairman and the well-known anti-LGBTQ+ activist Brian Brown as president.The website hasn’t been updated in some time, but NOM remains active on social media, even though the U.S.
extended equal marriage rights to same-sex couples through a Supreme Court ruling seven years ago. Recent NOM posts have denounced companies it deems too supportive of LGBTQ+ people, such as Disney, and a pinned post on Twitter accuses Pete and Chasten Buttigieg of “treating women like ovens” because a surrogate gave birth to their children.At NOM’s March for Marriage in 2014, Eastman likened fighting marriage equality to fighting slavery. “The courts should never take away controversial issues away from the voters in this country,” he said. “And that’s absolutely right.
The last time the court tried to do that a century and a half ago on the slavery question, Abraham Lincoln refused to comply.
