[4] Since its founding in 2007, Brown has been National Organization for Marriage's executive director and was additionally named president in 2010, succeeding Maggie Gallagher.

NOM led the initiative to pass California's Proposition 8 in 2008, which intended to constitutionally ban same-sex marriage in the state.

In 2012, he announced that NOM would launch a global "Dump Starbucks" campaign in response to that company's support for same-sex marriage.

[10] In late 2019, NOM filed a brief related to the cases about LGBTQ rights—Bostock v. Clayton County; Harris Funeral Homes v. EEOC; and Altitude Express v. Zarda—pending before the Supreme Court.

The other two people who posed in the photo were Gloria, Princess of Thurn and Taxis and Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Müller.