Newsweek Profiles Brian Brown

Saying he would "make a good politician" and calling him "extremely polished," Newsweek has published a glowing puff piece on NOM's Brian Brown which opens with a description of the hate mail Brown says he's received.

Brian Brown’s hate mail is divided into two categories: messages that go straight to the police and those he dumps into a growing computer file labeled OPPOSITION. One riled caller threatened to hang him from a tree “and burn you while your children watch”; someone else sent an e-mail offering to “donate” a pipe bomb to his office. The majority, however, simply vent frustration at Brown, who has emerged as the nation’s fiercest crusader against gay marriage. A big reason for their frustration is that Brown is succeeding.

The piece goes on to note NOM's burgeoning coffers.

Using direct-mail campaigns, donor outreach, and bus tours around the country, he spreads NOM’s message that preserving “traditional marriage” is necessary to protect families and ensure religious freedom. “We believe the marriage issue is the last frontier in the fight,” he says. “We have to hold the line there.” Although NOM operates with a skeleton staff, its budget has ballooned from $500,000 in 2007, when Brown cofounded the group, to more than $13 million today. With that war chest, it was able to pour some $5 million into 100 races in the recent elections.

The article also notes that Brown is a former Quaker, but is now a converted Catholic who is home schooling his six children. His wife is currently pregnant with their seventh child.