The Republican candidate for governor in New York said Sunday that children should not be “brainwashed” into thinking that homosexuality is acceptable. Tea Party favorite Carl Paladino made the remarks before a group of Hasidic Jewish leaders, in Brooklyn.

Carl Paladino: “I didn’t march in a gay parade this year — the gay pride parade this year. My opponent did. And that’s not the example that we should be showing our children… My approach is live and let live. I just think my children and your children would be much better off and much more successful getting married and raising a family, and I don’t want them to be brainwashed into thinking that homosexuality is an equally valid or successful option. It isn’t.”

Newsday reported that Carl Paladino’s prepared remarks also included a sentence saying, “There is nothing to be proud of in being a dysfunctional homosexual.’’ But Paladino omitted that line when he gave the speech. Paladino made the remarks on the same day that eight men were arraigned on hate crime charges in New York after they allegedly brutally beat and tortured three men because of their sexuality.