State Rep. Gordon Klingenschmitt, R-Colorado Springs, is at it again, and so are his critics.

After the Boy Scouts of America announced it was ending its ban on gay scout leaders, Klingenschmitt took to his online show, “Pray in Jesus Name News with Dr. Chaps” this week to condemn the move. “What they’re going to do is promote homosexual men to mentoring and campaign with your boys in the woods, and it will lead to child abuse,” he said in the video. “The children are in danger.”

But it was further comments, quoting from Biblical verse Matthew 18:6, that incited a new round of ire and calls for his resignation.

“Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to sin,” Klingenschmitt said, “it would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck, and he were drowned in the depth of the sea.”

The rebukes came fast and furiously.

“It would be easy to dismiss Klingenschmitt’s statements as the ravings of a deranged lunatic, except for the fact that he is an elected Republican legislator in the state of Colorado,” said ProgressNow Colorado director Amy Runyon-Harms, who called on the legislator to resign his seat.

“Gordon Klingenschmitt is inciting physical violence against scoutmasters for their sexual orientation, plain and simple,” said members of the House LGBT Caucus in a statement. The LGBT caucus, all Democrats, called on House Minority Leader Brian DelGrosso, R-Loveland, to denounce his fellow Republican.

Republicans were also swift to distance themselves from the lawmaker.

“We strongly condemn Gordon Klingenschmitt’s highly offensive comments,” said Colorado Republican Party Chairman Steve House, in a statement. “As we’ve said in the past, Gordon does not speak on behalf of the Party, nor do his words reflect our Party’s values.”

Klingenschmitt was stripped of his seat on the Health, Insurance and Environment Committee this spring by House GOP leadership after he discussed an attack on a pregnant Longmont woman, whose baby was cut from her womb by an attacker. Klingenschmitt called the crime “the curse of God upon America” for not protecting innocent children. He was reinstated on the committee after a few weeks.

“As we have said before, even though Rep. Klingenschmitt is the duly elected representative for House District 15, he does not speak for the House Republicans,” said Assistant Minority Leader Polly Lawrence, R-Littleton, in a statement. “Rep. Klingenschmitt’s inflammatory rhetoric was once again hurtful and does not represent the views of our caucus.”