Watch: Emotional Video of Ala. Father Protesting Moore's Anti-LGBTQ Stance Goes Viral

A video of an Alabama father, who lost his lesbian daughter to suicide years ago, protesting outside a rally for GOP Senate candidate Roy Moore is going viral this week.

The emotional clip, which shows peanut farmer Nathan Mathis taking issue with Moore's anti-LGBTQ views, was first shared on Twitter by NBC News reporter Vaughn Hillyard Monday afternoon and has already been viewed more than 2.7 million times. The video also received more than 84,000 likes and over 37,000 retweets.

In the two-minute video, Mathis, 74, is seen discussing Moore's past comments on homosexuality, which Mathis says amounts to the former judge calling gay people "perverts." He also explains he's protesting the Moore rally because he lost his daughter Patti Sue to suicide years ago. She was 23.

"This is something people need to stop and think about," Mathis says. "You're supposed to uphold the Constitution. The Constitution said all men were created equal. But how is my daughter a pervert just because she's gay?"

In the past,Moore touted that gay sex "should be illegal," calling it "an inherent evil, and an act so heinous that it defies one's ability to describe it," and that "sodomy is against the laws of nature."

Mathis, who is seen holding a large photo of his late daughter, opens up in the video, saying that he is religious and once had anti-gay views.

"I was anti-gay myself. I said bad things to my daughter myself, which I regret," he said. "But I can't take back what happened to my daughter. Stuff like saying my daughter was a pervert, I'm sure that bothered her."

Mathis went on to say of Moore that Alabama doesn't "need a person like that representing us in Washington. That's why I'm here." The farmer also held a sign that highlighted the sexual misconduct allegations against Moore: "A 32-year-old Roy Moore dated teenage girls ages 14 to 17," Mathis' sign reads. "So that makes him a pervert of the worst kind."

Moore has denied all allegations.

In the video, a reporter asks Mathis what he hopes to accomplish by protesting the Moore rally.

"I had mixed emotions about coming, but somebody needs to speak up," he said. "And if it's all to no avail, so be it. It won't be the first time I've done something to no avail."

The Washington Post points out Mathis wrote about his daughter in a letter to the Dothan Eagle, a small Alabama newspaper, in 2012. He writes that she was born in 1972 and was "a wonderful child" who was "very athletic, tomboyish (I always had to pitch batting practice to her after Dixie Youth practice), very beautiful and smart."

After learning she was gay from a friend while in high school, Mathis confronted Peggie Sue and "said some things to her that still eat on me to this day," he wrote in his letter, adding that he later apologized to her.

A few years later, she took her own life and Mathis wrote he found her.

"She was tired of being ridiculed and made fun of," Mathis added. "She was tired of seeing how a lot of people treat gay people."

He wrote: "I was ashamed of myself for sitting there and not defending Patti," he wrote. "May God have mercy on us all. I only know I miss my daughter Patti very much and I am grateful for having her as my daughter."

Alabama voters are hitting the polls Tuesday, choosing between moderate Democratic Senate hopeful Doug Jones and ultra conservative Roy Moore.

Watch the video of Mathis below.