According to news reports, a key player on Donald Trump’s presidential transition team is former Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell, now a senior fellow at the Family Research Council, who will be handling domestic issues as the team discusses the administration’s priorities for its first hundred days.

Blackwell gained national notoriety as Ohio’s secretary of state in the lead-up to the 2004 election, when he implemented a number of creative voter suppression measures. He now works for the FRC, which the Southern Poverty Law Center has labeled as an anti-gay hate group thanks to its promotion of “discredited research and junk science” meant to “denigrate LGBT people.”

At FRC, Blackwell has latched onto apocalyptic rhetoric about the threat of LGBT rights, saying that President Obama is emulating totalitarian regimes by “weakening the family” and “trying to marginalize the church” and even linking a mass shooting to the country’s crumbling “moral foundation” thanks to developments such as “the attack on natural marriage and the family.”

In a 2006 newspaper interview, when he was running for governor of Ohio, Blackwell called homosexuality a sinful “lifestyle” that “can be changed,” like that of kleptomaniacs or arsonists:

“I think homosexuality is a lifestyle, it’s a choice, and that lifestyle can be changed,” Blackwell said in response to the question “Is homosexuality a sin, and can gays be cured?” according to published transcripts. “I think it is a transgression against God’s law, God’s will.” He continued: “The reality is, again…that I think we make choices all the time. And I think you make good choices and bad choices in terms of lifestyle. Our expectation is that one’s genetic makeup might make one more inclined to be an arsonist or might make one more inclined to be a kleptomaniac. Do I think that they can be changed? Yes.”

At another point during that campaign, Blackwell compared same-sex couples to farm animals, saying that homosexuality “defies barnyard logic.”

Perhaps signaling a future affinity for Trump, Blackwell also came out against the so-called “Ground Zero Mosque” in 2010, saying that the Islamic community center’s planners did “not have a right” to open a building in lower Manhattan.

The FRC, for its part, seems ready to use its connection to Trump’s transition team to push for an agenda aimed at stripping freedoms from LGBT people and rolling back reproductive rights. In a panel discussion at September’s Values Voter Summit, FRC’s Mandi Ancalle explained that the group was working with transition-team contacts to advance a comprehensive agenda for Trump’s first hundred days in office: