Last month, Ted Cruz’s presidential campaign proudly announced that the Texas senator had received the endorsement of Flip Benham, the radical anti-choice and anti-gay founder of Operation Save America. Given Cruz’s willingness to openly associate with the extreme fringes of the conservative movement, we have been taking a closer look at just whom Cruz is embracing and going through recent speeches that some of his supporters have made, like the remarks that Benham delivered in Louisiana last year.

Speaking to an Operation Save America pastors’ briefing in New Orleans last June, Benham blasted HGTV for cancelling a reality show that was to be hosted by his sons David and Jason after their anti-choice and anti-gay activism came to light.

“That station, HGTV is ‘Homosexual Garbage Television,'” Benham declared. “You’ve got to know that that’s trash … I mean, the homosexual community came after them with a vengeance. You see, the homosexual community doesn’t want to just get you fired or something like that, they want to destroy you! They want to destroy everything because inside of them, their heart is raging against the Lord and they can’t ever get satisfied because God thwarts the cravings of the wicked. And you understand that’s the most violent community there is, is the homosexual community. They want you dead! I’m guaranteeing you they want you dead!”

This is someone whom Cruz is “excited” to have supporting his campaign.