A conservative activist from Texas likened gay people to termites and Soviet infiltrators sent to "eat away at the very moral fabric" of the U.S. at a conference in Houston headlined by Dallas pastor Robert Jeffress.

Steven Hotze, president of Conservative Republicans of Texas, made the comments at the second annual Stand4Truth conference held Oct. 28 and 29. The theme of the conference was the "politically incorrect truth about sexuality and gender."

Neither Hotze nor a spokesperson for Conservative Republicans of Texas were immediately available for comment.

According to the conference's agenda, Hotze made the comments during a panel discussion with other speakers at the event who talked about topics like "How LGBT groups use blacks to advance their godless agenda" and "The LGBT activist mission to defeat faith-based institutions."

Video of Hotze's opening remarks were posted to YouTube by RightWingWatch.org on Nov. 1. The video opens with Hotze commenting on the "disconcerting" information presented by the conferences speakers.

He says the homosexual political movement has infiltrated "like termites."

"They get into the wood of the house, and they eat away at the very moral fabric of the foundation of our country," Hotze says.

He goes on to say the actions of gay people in the U.S. are "exactly what the Marxist movement was about."

"If you remember, Khrushchev came and said we're going to get your country one way or another, and the way they want to do it is to destroy the moral fabric and create moral anarchy in our country so that our people no longer live righteous lives but they're living lives that are ungodly," Hotze says. "When you do that, you lack moral courage, because you can't very well stand up and oppose people doing wicked things if you're participating in the same activities."

Hotze goes on to say he thinks it is unjust that he can't say homosexuality is wrong or immoral, "because that's hate speech," but pornography on the internet is legal.

Robert Jeffress, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Dallas and vocal Donald Trump supporter, gave two keynote speeches at the conference: "The most misunderstood word in America" and "America's coming implosion."

Jeffress, no stranger to controversial comments himself, said earlier this year that transgender-friendly businesses are a bigger threat to the U.S. than ISIS and defended Trump's proposal, from which he later retreated, that women who get abortions should be punished.