Brian Brown

HRC: By insulting same-sex parents, NOM hits new low

SDGLN Staff
April 25th, 2013

WASHINGTON – Brian Brown, president of the anti-gay National Organization for Marriage, hit a new low Wednesday, responding to the passage of a marriage equality bill in the Rhode Island state Senate by proclaiming:

"It's bad enough when families break down through divorce or death, but it's unconscionable when a state encourages this through policies that deprive children of the love of both a mother and a father. This is a very sad day for Rhode Island."

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Dueling rallies planned for Prop 8/DOMA week at Supreme Court | UPDATED

Ken Williams - SDGLN Editor in Chief
March 15th, 2013

WASHINGTON – Supporters and opponents of marriage equality are busy making final plans for large rallies in Washington, D.C., during the last week of March when the U.S. Supreme Court hears oral arguments on two high-profile cases involving California’s Proposition 8 and the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA).

NOM president Brian Brown touts honorary degree – from non-existent university

SDGLN Staff
March 6th, 2013

WASHINGTON – National Organization for Marriage president Brian Brown is touting an honorary degree he’s received from a non-existent university, the Human Rights Campaign says.

On Monday, Brown – fresh off a jaunt to Paris in an attempt to take NOM’s anti-LGBT message abroad - tweeted that he was “honored to receive honorary doctorate this weekend in Memphis from American Urban U. & Church of God in Christ!” Brown also tweeted a picture of himself receiving the “honorary degree.”

COMMENTARY: National movement opposing same-sex marriage appears doomed

Human Rights Campaign
January 17th, 2013

The Human Rights Campaign today highlights a new milestone in the march toward full marriage equality: the fall of the empire opposed to same-sex marriage.

Widespread losses, sagging poll numbers and poor investments make it difficult to see how national groups like the so-called National Organization for Marriage remain viable.

HRC: National Organization for Marriage’s law firm defended racist campaign

SDGLN Staff
December 7th, 2012

WASHINGTON– National Organization for Marriage (NOM) President Brian Brown is organizing, fundraising and providing support for far-right and racially insensitive clients out of NOM’s K Street office via his relatively new ActRight properties, including the ActRight Legal Foundation.

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COMMENTARY: The fable of Brian Brown or the great marriage non sequitur

Kit-Bacon Gressitt – SDGLN Contributor
November 12th, 2012

(Note, 11 Nov 2012: On November 7, the nation’s evolving attitude toward same-sex marriage was demonstrated at the polls in Maine, Maryland, Minnesota and Washington, where voters supported the right to marry. And the reaction from Brian Brown, Executive Director of the National Organization for Marriage?

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NEWS ANALYSIS: Autopsy on an election

Ken Williams - SDGLN Editor in Chief
November 8th, 2012

Ten things we may have learned from the 2012 elections:

1. The culture war is over. For real. GOP strategist Karl Rove needs to tear that chapter from his playbook and burn it in the nearest fireplace. The tired old tactics of the Far Right to demonize LGBT Americans and minorities no longer work. Just look at the ballot box on Nov. 6 for proof.

Anti-gay group NOM reacts to election losses: "We are not defeated"

LGBTQ Nation Staff Reports
November 7th, 2012

"We are not defeated in our fight for traditional marriage," reads the headline on NOM's blog. "Americans remain strongly in favor of marriage as the union of one man and one woman," wrote a Brian Brown, NOM president.

Fred Karger: U. S. Supreme Court rejects NOM’s bid to break Maine’s election law

Fred Karger - Rights Equal Rights
October 1st, 2012

WASHINGTON – The United States Supreme Court rebuffed the National Organization for Marriage (NOM) today in its attempt to violate the longstanding campaign reporting requirements by the State of Maine. By refusing to hear NOM’s appeal of an earlier federal court decision, the Supreme Court once again upheld its view of transparency in campaign disclosure laws.

Statement by Fred Karger, who filed the original money laundering complaint against NOM in Maine in 2009

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COMMENTARY: Say a prayer to whom?

Kit-Bacon Gressitt – SDGLN Contributor
June 29th, 2012

Recently, my daughter and I were out of the country for a month, affording her the pleasure of recovering from heartsickness in a foreign land, with muchos hombres muy guapos, and me, the opportunity to reflect on my homeland from afar.

Kate found the joy of traveling young in Europe, and I found that the United States is no better or worse than any other country. It just happens to be mine.

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