The organizer of a so-called Straight Pride Parade hoping to win a permit for his group to hold a parade in Modesto, Calif., accidentally called his group a "peaceful racist group" during a Modesto City Council meeting.

The Washington Post reported Friday that organizer Don Grundmann of the Straight Pride Coalition, an anti-gay group based in California, accused council members of justifying violence that occurred at one of the group's past protests by referring to the group as "racist" and bigoted.

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While making his point, however, Grundmann reportedly referred to his own group as "racist."

“You pulled the race card to justify attacks against us in that park. When they come, you’re going to turn right around and say we deserved it," Grundmann said, according to the Post.

“We haven’t done anything,” he reportedly continued. “We’re a totally peaceful racist group.”

The accidental admission was met with a chorus of laughter from attendees of the City Council meeting, according to the Post, as well as amusement from the council member Grundmann was admonishing at the time.

The councilwoman, Kristi Ah You, reportedly previously called the group “hateful, harmful, insincere, and dangerous" in a Facebook post.

In a phone interview with the Post following the meeting, Grundmann called his remark "just a verbal gaffe" and denied that white supremacy was a real ideology.

A separate group was granted permission in June to hold a "Straight Pride Parade" in Boston, a city with one of the largest LGBTQ populations in the country.