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The leader of an anti-gay group in Texas has been hit by his own relationship troubles after his wife walked out on him… for a woman.

Jonathan Saenz was previously a socially conservative lobbyist but recently became leader of homophobic group Texas Values, according to Lone Star Q .

The website puts his change in views down to his wife Corrine's affair with a woman called Ercilia Paredes after uncovering divorce papers that revealed the development.

Saenz is described as a devout catholic who had previously worked on abortion and religious liberty.

Saenz has pushed for gay conversion therapy, despite the practice being discredited, and said that same-sex marriage would lead to polygamy and open the door for people marrying their step children.

He has also suggested that activists within the LGBT community would call for Christians to be put in concentration camps.

But it was only recently that he took the helm at the anti-LGBT group which campaigned against same-sex marriage.

Among the opinions the group expressed was the myth that women and children would be preyed on in bathrooms by sex attackers using gay rights law.