Just two weeks before the U.S. Supreme Court is scheduled to hear arguments on the constitutionality of the federal Defense of Marriage Act and California’s ban on same-sex marriage, National Organization for Marriage (NOM) Board Chairman John Eastman referred to families with adopted children as “second best.”
John Eastman
Eastman made the remarks to the Associated Press in reference to Chief Justice John Roberts, who has adopted two children with his wife.
Eastman, who argues that families headed by a man and a woman with biological children are best for society, said of the Chief Justice’s decision to adopt:
“You’re looking at what is the best course society wide to get you the optimal result in the widest variety of cases. That often is not open to people in individual cases. Certainly adoption in families headed, like Chief Roberts’ family is, by a heterosexual couple, is by far the second-best option.”
Eastman’s comments stand in direct opposition to facts introduced at trial in 2010 in the federal court challenge to Proposition 8, California’s voter-approved ban on same-sex marriage.
Chief Justice John Roberts’ “second best” family.
That case is now due to go before the Supreme Court in less than two weeks. At the 2010 trial, David Blankenhorn – an expert witness for the proponents of Prop 8 – testified that children raised by gay or lesbian adoptive parents did just as well, if not better, than those raised by their biological parents.
Proponents of Proposition 8 — as with most defenders of “traditional” marriage — assert that the historical traditions of heterosexual marriage is designed to foster procreation in society.
ProtectMarriage.com, the original sponsor of Proposition 8, has argued that preserving traditional marriage furthers society’s “existential interests in responsible procreation and childrearing.”
“An animating purpose of marriage is to increase the likelihood that children will be born and raised in stable and enduring family units by their own mothers and fathers,” wrote Charles Cooper, a lawyer for ProtectMarriage.com, in the group’s Supreme Court brief.
The National Organization for Marriage was an early backer of Protectmarraige.com.
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I think his best option is to keep his ignorant trap shut.
Really? Second best? Makes nom sense, as adopted children are taken into loving, caring families by parents who truly want them. One can conceive a child “by accident;” however, one cannot adopt a child by mistake. Adopted children are in families that truly want them.
who the hell does this ferret looking mother fucker think he is. second best?
What the actual fuck??
That sure will go over well with many I know of.
Idiot
MORON
a man + a woman + kds does not mean a happy/healthy family. with any familes: single parents, homosexual couples, heteroseuxal couples..what matters is love. I hope he doesn’t have kids
The stupidity that keeps coming is appalling.
This is bullshit. I’m adopted, and my family treats me a hell of a lot better than I was treated before.
Really?… what the heck… all I can see is stupidity in this.. it’s not about best anyways, this guy need to be fired or something. dunno how he got this job.
John Eastman you are a arrogant SOB. I spent 9 years in the foster system that you all think is so great. Then was adopted. So you open your fat ass mouth and tell me im second class because of this? Who the hell do you think you are. I’m active in the lives of foster children being a mentor and recently broke the Guinness book of world records for most balloon sculptures made in 24 hours. Donating all the money raised to foster children. So im second class? Your just a dumb ass. What the hell have you done except show how much of a piece of crap you are. I rarely go off or post on articles but you went to far. So what your saying is you don’t support our kids. Your a complete monster.
People associated with NOM are TRULY IGNORANT!
My sister & I were adopted by two amazing parents. We had the stepford childhood with very loving parents. This asshole has no clue about anything but made up hate!
No child is 2nd best, they’re #1
yeah they say “gay” parents are second best but they are adopting children who “straight” parents either did not want or got taken from them yeah second best IT IS THE BEST FOR THE KIDS TO HAVE A FAMILY THEN TO SIT IN A FOSTER HOME
KIDS NEED SOMEONE WHO THEY KNOW WHO CARES AND I SAY TO THOSE WHO ADOPT YOU ARE DOING A kick ass job keep it up
I was adopted and he can go fuck himself! Seriously, if they really want to keep marriage between “a man and woman” they sure as Hell are doing a shitty job of doing so by going against ALL ADOPTIVE FAMILY’S. I cant wait for June to come.
This is quite interesting for this guy to say. What is next, a redefinition of the family as only those heterosexual couples who are fertile and no others? Oh and ban all adoptions even when the parents do not want them. Let’s look at these guys as destroying the family in the long run by pushing forward with a very hateful agenda. The guy who originally pushed for California’s prop 8 got it that we are not trying to destroy the family but reaffirm it as a standard that we all aspire to have in our lives.
sick bastard
OMG!!!!! I hope to hell my eldest child (son) does not meet up with this asshole – I will help him beat the living crap out of this low life piece of shit. and for the record – I love my son more than life itself.
First class putz
The more ignorant fucktards like him open their mouths the deeper the whole is that they are digging for themselves! what a schmuck!
NOM should not be taken seriously period, they are a bunch of idiots.
I expect that NOM must have a combined IQ of about 10. That might be a bit high though
@Tim Calahan- you have given me an idea for a new word- NOMSENSE-anything these idiots say!
Yeah, it was a mistake when I typed”nom”, but it was so appropriate! Nomsense! Love it!
T________________T NOM..what are you doing?..NOM..STAHP
another old white moron, looking stupid!
what a disgusting turtle man! That is freaking hateful.
You’ve got to feel sorry for his family ! Can you imagine the shame of being around such ignorant hate
Idiot. Well he’s the chairman of something called nom, what do we expect. Heh
its sad to hear well educated adults making such ignorant remarks.
Idiots, we’e surrounded by freaking idiots.
There’s no shortage of “stupid”.