A Texas-based group that once called Houston’s first openly-gay mayor a “sodomite” has decided to get involved with a Georgia preacher and doctor suing over religious discrimination.Eric Walsh’s sometimes fiery sermons came to the attention of Georgia public health officials after he was conditionally offered a job in May 2014. During his time there, one of Walsh’s supervisors asked for links to a few sermons.

That’s what outraged the U.S. Pastor Council, which is based in Houston. The group has rushed to Walsh’s defense, saying no employer has a right to see notes of a pastor’s sermons.

“This poisonous mindset that has contempt for religious liberty and the Constitution crosses across geographical and partisan lines,” Pastor Dave Welch, executive director of the U.S. Pastor Council told Breitbart News . “If this can happen in a Bible Belt state with a Republican governor, it can happen anywhere.”

State officials deny they were “analyzing” Walsh’s sermons and religious beliefs. An email shared among state officials states that not hiring Walsh based on his sermons would made them no better than the person who sent videos of Walsh to state officials in an effort to have him dismissed.

Walsh’s conditional employment ended in 2015 and he sued.

The U.S. Pastor Council has jumped into headlines before.

The group called former Houston Mayor Annise Parker, the city’s first openly-gay mayor, a “sodomite” and labeled gay people “forces of spiritual darkness.”

Welch joined with a group of social conservatives concerned about a “gay takeover” of city government. They also pushed to repeal an LGBT non-discrimination law recently in Plano, Texas.