Updated 5:30 p.m. Wednesday: Revised to include an apology from Romero.

An anti-LGBTQ Fort Worth pastor ousted last week after admitting he'd slept with prostitutes, gambled and smoked marijuana, posted an apology video to Youtube Wednesday, saying he's repented for his actions but stands by his beliefs.

Former Stedfast Baptist Church pastor Donnie Romero, known for praising the 2016 shooting at a gay nightclub in Orlando and condemning the victims, will be replaced Sunday.

Donnie Romero

"I haven't changed anything I believe," Romero said in the apology video. "I'm sorry that the church's name is being dragged through the mud now."

Donnie Romero's departure was announced during a Jan. 2 meeting at the church, which is designated as an anti-LGBTQ hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center.

"I haven't been ruling my house well," Romero told the congregation. "I've been a terrible husband and father."

Romero said in the video that his wife had forgiven him, but that churchgoers will "probably never see [him] again," as he wants to give the church a fresh start and is no longer qualified to work as a pastor.

"God's not going to bless a church whose pastor is committing all these grievous sins," he said in the video. "He's going to judge the church."

He committed some of the sins multiple times, he said, including on a trip to Jacksonville, Fla.

Activists protested Romero in June 2016, after he expressed support for the shooter who killed 49 people at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, calling the victims "perverts and pedophiles."

"They're the scum of the earth, and the earth is a better place now, and I'll take it a step further," Romero said. "I'll pray to God like I did this morning, and I will again tonight, that God will finish the job that that man started."

Houston pastor Jonathan Shelley, who has called members of the LGBTQ community "filthy," "wicked," and "beasts" in an October 2018 sermon, will begin leading Stedfast on Sunday, Anderson said.