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鈥淚 look forward to continuing to work to advance the pro-family movement in the US and around the world,鈥� Brown said 聽on Tuesday. 鈥淧reserving and promoting the natural family as the core institution of society is an essential task if we are to build strong, stable, healthy communities.鈥�

Brian Brown speaking at the 9th WCF Congress in Salt Like City, 2015

Moving to WCF is a logical trajectory for Brown, one of the best-known anti-LGBT activists in the United States. Over the past few years, he has gradually refocused his opposition to marriage equality to international work, especially after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of marriage equality. Working through the United Nations and international channels, WCF has pushed the doctrine of the 鈥溾�� 鈥� one man married to one woman and their biological children. The idea is the basis for the development of policies and the passage of laws that further criminalize abortion and LGBT people. WCF also has worked to build support for laws that criminalize homosexuality and abortion.

Known for his measured public rhetoric but also his聽staunch opposition to marriage equality, Brown has a long history in anti-LGBT activism. He became of the Family Institute of Connecticut (FIC) in 2001, where he fought against marriage equality, civil unions and domestic partnerships in the state.

During his tenure at FIC, the group on its website聽that offered聽false and damaging claims about LGBT people, including calling them promiscuous and linking same-sex parents to pedophilia and a shortened lifespan. Other materials include a brochure by the Family Research Council, 鈥淭he Slippery Slope of Same-Sex Marriage,鈥� which states that 鈥渉omosexuality is unnatural鈥� and promotes the idea of the 鈥渢he gay agenda,鈥� a conspiracy theory that argues the LGBT community is engaged in a secret effort to聽marginalize heterosexuals.聽

2002 logo of Family Institute of Connecticut

Brown left the FIC in 2007 to join NOM鈥檚 founding board along with other anti-LGBT activists like and conservative in 2007. NOM鈥檚 primary focus then was to push a ballot measure in California to ban same-sex marriage. Proposition 8, as it was called, passed but聽was later found unconstitutional. But NOM鈥檚 public profile was on the rise. The group became a clearinghouse for anti-LGBT marriage initiatives throughout the country.

But during its years of existence,聽NOM has repeatedly run afoul of election laws, even gaining a for running political campaigns without disclosing its donors to election officials. NOM has filed several lawsuits regarding its opposition to campaign disclosure laws.

In 2014, the Maine Ethics Commission more than $50,000 for violating state laws in 2009 during a campaign against marriage equality.聽The commission report suggested NOM had violated campaign disclosure laws in New Hampshire and Iowa and lied about its malfeasance to a government agency.

Then, in what became a public relations disaster, leaked in 2012 revealed that NOM was a national strategy that would 鈥渆xpose鈥� President Obama as a 鈥渟ocial radical鈥� and 鈥渄rive a wedge between gays and blacks鈥� by using black spokespeople to promote NOM鈥檚 agenda and 鈥減rovoke the gay marriage base鈥� into calling the black spokespeople bigots. Part of the strategy included 鈥渇inding attractive young black Democrats to challenge white gay marriage advocates electorally鈥� and seeking 鈥渢o identify glamorous young Latino and Latina leaders鈥�willing to stand for marriage.鈥�

NOM also after tax records were leaked in 2012 that included the names of donors. A federal judge ruled that there wasn鈥檛 enough evidence to prove the leak was anything more than a single IRS employee鈥檚 mistake. Nevertheless, the IRS settled the lawsuit for $50,000 and NOM claimed victory.

By 2014, though, NOM鈥檚 , according to its tax returns, and the acceptance of same-sex marriage was advancing quickly. By then, Brown had already started engaging in more international efforts, Manif Pour Tous during its massive protests against marriage equality. He in October 2013 to聽lobby against same-sex couples adopting children and to attend a roundtable discussion on 鈥渢raditional values.鈥� Brown addressed a Duma committee, saying that, 鈥淓very child should have the right to normal parents.鈥� NOM did not publicly announce Brown鈥檚 trip to Russia, but he appeared on Russian media while there, Right Wing Watch reported.

World Congress of Families is also heavily , and supportive of that country's anti-LGBT laws, in whose wake has increased.

Brown's colleagues at WCF include聽Larry Jacobs, WCF managing director, who聽 for the laws, saying that they're "a great idea." It would ban propaganda to minors, he said, "preventing [LGBT people] from corrupting children." He further lamented that Europe聽was "going the other way, legalizing LGBT propaganda." Alexey Komov is WCF's Russian representative, and also the director of FamilyPolicy.ru. He is an ardent聽supporter of Russia's anti-LGBT laws and聽has said that "homosexual lifestyles are not healthy."聽Another of Brown's colleagues at WCF is聽Don Feder,聽director of coalitions and coordinator of regional conferences, who聽has said that, "Gay rights is about indoctrinating your children in behavior that would make a proctologist gag." Feder, who also sits on the national board of advisors of the anti-immigrant hate group the Federation for American Immigration Reform聽has also said of Islam that what the U.S. needs isn't gun control, but rather "," which would involve a religion test for everyone entering the U.S. and surveillance of all American mosques. Of the decision to put abolitionist聽Harriett Tubman on the twenty-dollar bill, Feder expressed his displeasure, saying,聽"American history was made by white males, who were overwhelmingly Christian."

Brown will remain president of NOM even as he takes on the mantle of WCF.