US Senator To NOM Chairman: ‘I Don’t Believe You’re In The World Of Reality’ (Video)

U.S. Senator Dick Durbin last week slammed the chairman of NOM during a Senate hearing.

Isn’t it interesting how the people who are the most anti-gay are the exact same people who are the most anti-immigrant?

Last week the Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing on immigration and President Barack Obama’s executive order that would allow about five million undocumented immigrants to temporarily but legally work and pay taxes in the U.S.

Democratic Senator Dick Durbin spelled out the three simple choices facing America: Leave the current situation in place, forcing millions to live in daily fear of deportation – including splitting up families, or, quoting former presidential candidate Mitt Romney, “self-deportation,” forcing about 11 million to mass deport, or President Obama’s choice.

John Eastman, the chairman of NOM, the National Organization For Marriage, and a law professor was one invited by the GOP to speak to the committee. Which is stunning in itself, as Eastman once joked that it “may be a good thing” if Iran were to drop a nuclear bomb on New York.

In the end, Dr. Eastman chose option number two: mass deportation of 11 million immigrants – a situation that would actually throw the American economy into chaos, not to mention the cost to families and even human lives.

Sen. Durbin concluded his back-and-forth with Dr. Eastman by stating, “I don’t believe you’re in the world of reality.”

Saying that this is a “nation of laws,” Eastman, seemingly agitated, decried what he sees as America becoming a “lawless society” if President Obama executes his executive order on immigration. 

But Eastman, as chairman of NOM, has other ideas when it comes to being a “nation of laws.”

For example, under Eastman, NOM president Brian Brown sent a mass fundraising email urging Gov. Sam Brownback “to defend and uphold Kansas’s marriage amendment” – and ignore the federal ruling that struck down Kansas’ ban on same-sex marriage.

But Eastman has also presided over and defended NOM’s illegal refusal to divulge its donors as part of state campaign finance laws. The State of Maine, for example, imposed on NOM the highest fine for this violation ever: $50,000. It is not believed NOM has yet paid that fine.

NOM also routinely labels judges who strike down marriage bans “lawless,” but it’s clear who the real culprit is.

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