Watch: Calls Mount for NY County Official to Step Down after Anti-LGBTQ Comments Caught on Video

Would all the LGBTQ people in the world die out in a generation if they were dumped on an island? That's the unlikely scenario described by a county official in upstate New York. He's now facing calls to resign.

Those remarks were captured for posterity on video, and now Albany County Legislator George Langdon faces calls to resign, local news channel WNYT reports.

Langdon's comments were part of an address he gave at a gathering called "A Return to Liberty Under the Constitution" that took place the weekend of March 27- 28.

Claiming that "God's plan" contains an inherent "sustainability," Langdon declared that same-sex relationships lack a "perpetual" aspect.

"Sorry, when you have homosexual relationships, it's not perpetual," Langdon told his audience. "Give them an island, they'll be gone in 40 years. Because God created us this way."

"There's so much common sense that needs to be applied to our policies, our procedures that we do in our government," Langdon added, before going on to discard the foundational principle of the separation of church and state as "bogus."

The gathering took place at a bible camp and retreat and was organized by William Tryon who, local newspaper the Times Union reported, "is being charged with three federal misdemeanors for entering the Capitol on Jan. 6."

The gathering also featured speakers with anti-government views and at least one who spoke out against COVID precautions like the wearing of masks.

Critics of Langdon's remarks say it's he who should be gone - from government, that is.

"I really do think Mr. Langdon needs to resign and let someone who is maybe more representative of the community be the person that we send to the Albany County Legislature," Cindy Rowzee, who is running for town supervisor in Coeyman, the town Langdon represents, told WNYT.

"Listening to someone laughingly share an ugly, nightmarish scenario of our loved one's being 'gone after 40 years' shakes us all to our core, not only as public servants but as human beings," said Andrew Joyce, the Albany County Legislature Chairman. "I call on him to apologize and resign. Not for 40 years, but forever."

Local business owner Libby Post, who is an LGBTQ equality advocate, was more succinct, telling the Times Union, "I think it's pretty clear he doesn't value our lives.

"We're the other, they don't think of us as human beings," Post observed.

Langdon issued an apology and said his comments had been "foolish," WNYT reported, but to no avail; his comments sparked a "Stop the Hate" rally at Rocks, a gay bar in Albany, with the message being that Langdon should step down.

"Protestors stood outside Rocks, a local gay bar and nightclub chanting "apology not accepted,' " the news channel said.

Watch the WNYT news clip below.