Since her husband, Doug Mastriano, garnered the Republican nomination for governor, Rebecca Mastriano has assumed a far more public role. Until recently, she had remained in the background, engrossed in church-related activities.
Doug Mastriano animates his stump speeches with messianic religious metaphors, peppering conservative political rhetoric with biblical narratives about warfare, and calling himself a warrior in God’s army.
The Mastrianos have had their rough patches, she admitted, but God has been “impressing” on her to endure those times and encourage others to do the same. Rebecca Stewart Mastriano was born on Dec. 19, 1961 in Sharpsville, a small rural Mercer County community that borders Ohio. Koven said her sister’s relationship with Doug Mastriano started as a friendship. She had had several boyfriends and had been engaged prior to meeting him; the friendship soon got serious.By then she had started to attend a new church, which Koven described as far more full of “praise and evangelical leaning” than they had known as Presbyterians.
Mastriano believed, Griswold wrote, that an ensuing sandstorm which led to the enemy’s defeat and ceasefire was a miracle, and evidence of his wife’s spiritual power.“I think they’ve gotten swept up in the extremism of religion,” said Koven, who lives in Los Angeles and admits to being estranged from her sister. She last saw her in 2018 when their mother died. Their father died in 2011.
Since then, Mastriano has been subpoenaed by the Jan. 6 select committee, come under fire for association with white supremacist organizations and the far-right social media platform Gab and posing in a Confederate uniform for a group photo at the Army War College. The couple’s church aligns with the Conservative Mennonite Conference, which espouses a traditional view of marriage. It considers divorce a sin, opposes abortion rights, war, hatred and racism.
“It’s like if you are not a Republican or a Christian and with her exact point of view, you don’t count,” Koven said. “I had a lot of heated discussions with her about some things.”
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