John Eastman, who last month replaced
Maggie Gallagher as board chair of the National Organization of
Marriage (NOM), has said gay marriage is “evil.”
During an interview with the National
Catholic Register, Eastman, a professor and former dean at Chapman
Law School in Southern California, was asked: “Those fighting for
traditional marriage can feel beaten down by the culture at large.
Do you feel that victory for traditional marriage is possible?”
“Evil will be with us always, and it
requires constant vigilance to defeat,” Eastman answered. “I
look at it as a litigator and an educator. There will always be
threats to institutions grounded in human nature by those who think
human nature doesn’t define limits. We need to be involved in the
immediate defense of threats against marriage, but also take a
long-range view by educating the next generation about the importance
of the issues we're confronting.”
Eastman, who last year unsuccessfully
ran for state attorney general in California, has previously referred
to homosexuality as a form of “barbarism,” according to Equality
Matters.