The former vice president of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts said he was fired for comments about same-sex marriage after a CNN reporter reached out about it. Floyd Brown was appointed vice president of the Kennedy Center last month and served under the center’s president,

Floyd Brown said his dismissal happened about two hours after CNN contacted him for comment on his past statements on homosexuality and marriage.

A new controversy is brewing inside the MAGA movement after conservative activist Floyd Brown publicly claimed he was fired from his position as Vice President of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts by Richard Grenell,