Nationality American Children Eight Spouse(s) Susan Brown | Religion Roman Catholic Occupation Activist Name Brian Brown | |
Born c. 1974 Whittier, California Organization National Organization for Marriage Education University of California, Los Angeles, University of Oxford, Whittier College | ||
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Brian S. Brown (born c. 1974) is an American co-founder of the National Organization for Marriage (NOM), and has served as its president since 2010, having previously served as executive director. The National Organization for Marriage is a non-profit political organization established in 2007 to work against legalization of same-sex marriage in the United States. NOM's mission is "protecting marriage and the faith communities that sustain it."
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Career
In 2001, Brown became the executive director of the Family Institute of Connecticut, a socially conservative organization. On February 10, 2002 Brown presented a testimony in front of the Connecticut House Judiciary Committee on HB 5002 and HB 5001.
Brown was NOM's executive director from its founding in 2007 and was additionally named president in 2010, succeeding Maggie Gallagher. NOM led the initiative to pass California's Proposition 8 in 2008.
In 2012, he announced that NOM would launch a global "Dump Starbucks" campaign in response to that company's support for same-sex marriage. In October 2013, Brown announced that The National Organization for Marriage filed a lawsuit in federal court against the Internal Revenue Service for releasing confidential tax documents; the lawsuit was settled for $50,000.
Personal life
Brown was raised in Whittier, California. At age 25 he converted from Quakerism to Roman Catholicism. He has a bachelor's degree from Whittier College, where he was student body president, and a master's degree in modern history from Oxford University, and is a C.Phil. at UCLA. The C.Phil. is an interim status for students who intend to complete their PhD within a given time period. Candidacy can be revoked if that time period is exceeded, at UCLA that time can range between 2-5 years.