One day before the start of Pride Month, an Alabama mayor reportedly recommended the killing of the LGBTQ community.

In a now-deleted Facebook post from Friday, Carbon Hill Mayor Mark Chambers railed against “a society where homosexuals lecture us on morals, transvestites lecture us on human biology, baby killers lecture us on human rights and socialists lecture us on economics,” local Fox affiliate WBRC reported.

In response, one of Chamber’s friends, whose identity was concealed by WBRC, wrote, “I hate to think of the country my grandkids will live in unless somehow we change and I think that will take a revolution.”

Replying, the mayor promoted the use of targeted violence:

“The only way to change it would be to kill the problem out. I know it’s bad to say but without killing them out there’s no way to fix it.”

Speaking exclusively to WBRC to address the remarks, Chambers initially claimed he didn’t write the comments, then called back to deny that he “said anything about killing out gays.”

After hearing the words read back to him, he acknowledged his comment.