Gary Richard Glenn (June 16, 1958 – July 27, 2023) was an American politician and activist who was a member of the Michigan House of Representatives for the state's 98th district, from 2015 to 2018, as a Republican.
He was also president of the American Family Association of Michigan, an organization that the Southern Poverty Law Center has recognized as a homophobic hate group.
[2] In his role with the American Family Association, he coauthored a 2004 amendment to the state constitution which defined marriage as solely between one man and one woman, until it was overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court's 2015 decision in Obergefell v. Hodges.
As executive director of the Idaho Freedom to Work Committee from 1980 to 1986, he led a successful effort to enact a state right-to-work law prohibiting collective bargaining agreements that require membership in or financial support of a labor union as a condition of employment.
In 2011, Glenn was a founding board member of the Michigan Freedom to Work coalition, which successfully advocated similar legislation in that state.
The organization campaigned in support of a 2004 referendum to amend the Michigan constitution to define marriage as "the union of one man and one woman"; the measure was overturned by the United States Supreme Court in 2015.
[citation needed] In 2016, he was named "House Member of the Year" by the Associated Builders and Contractors of Michigan and received NFIB's "Guardian of Small Business" Award.