Howdy.

Well, the moron, Carl Paladino, strikes again.

New York (CNN) — New York Republican gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino criticized gays Sunday, saying he didn’t want children “to be brainwashed into thinking that homosexuality is an equally valid or successful option,” compared to heterosexuality.

“It isn’t,” Paladino said at a stop in Brooklyn, New York.

A prepared version of his remarks obtained by CNN from New York affiliate NY1 said that “There is nothing to be proud of in being a dysfunctional homosexual,” though Paladino did not wind up delivering that line.

“That’s not how (God) created us,” the prepared remarks continued, though Paladino did not say those words.