Just a week before the UK’s general election, Tory candidate Philip Lardner [pictured] has been abruptly suspended for describing gay people as “somewhere between unfortunate and simply wrong.”

A section of his website made his prejudiced views on gay issues clear. He noted that he supported parents and teachers who did not want their children to be taught about homosexuality, and supported churches who did not want to employ gay people.

While he accepted that what people do in private is their own business, “I will not accept that their behaviour is ‘normal’ or encourage children to indulge in it,” he added.

Tory party leader David Cameron moved swiftly to suspend Lardner as soon as the website comments were brought to his attention, reports the UK Telegraph.

“The views expressed by Philip Lardner, the candidate for North Ayrshire and Arran, are deeply offensive and unacceptable and as a result he has been suspended as a member of the Conservative Party,” says Andrew Fulton, the chairman of the Conservative Party in Scotland.

“We therefore do not support Mr Lardner’s candidacy in the North Ayrshire and Arran constituency. These views have no place in the modern Conservative party.”