"A West Virginia Republican compared LGBTQ people to the Ku Klux Klan in an interview that has led to calls for his resignation.

Speaking with the Charleston Gazette-Mail, Delegate Eric Porterfield discussed his use of “faggot” during an anti-gay rant at a committee meeting on Wednesday, Feb. 6.

Porterfield had championed legislation at the meeting that would have legalized discrimination against LGBTQ people, and called LGBTQ people “the most socialist group in this country.”

“They do not protect gays,” he continued. “There are many gays they persecute if they do not line up with their social ideology.”

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