It looks like Tea Party Unity founder Rick Scarborough won’t be getting much support for his idea to file a class action lawsuit against homosexuality.

One of the Tea Party’s original founding groups has issued a statement distancing itself from Scarborough, a former Baptist pastor who believes AIDS is God’s punishment against gays.

‘As one of the true founding Tea Party groups, TeaParty365 would like to take this opportunity to once again, and once-and-for-all, distance ourselves – and the larger Tea Party Movement– from the self-serving antics of Rick Scarborough, and his ilk,’ read a statement from TeaParty365’s David Webb.

‘TeaParty365 does not support this idiotic notion [of suing homosexuality]. We feel it is counter-productive to the national conversation, and ultimately harmful to the Tea Party brand, and the country.’

Scarborough floated the idea at a Tea Party Unity event last week suggesting it would be similar to lawsuits filed against tobacco companies in the 1990s.

Scarborough had said: ‘ … Homosexuality much more likely leads to AIDS than smoking leads to cancer. And yet the entire nation has rejected smoking, billions of dollars are put into a trust fund to help cancer victims and the tobacco industry was held accountable for that.’

In a press release, Webb states that when a member is speaking on issues outside of the four basic tenets of smaller government, fiscal responsibility, personal responsibility and the Constitution, they are not speaking on behalf of the Tea Party.