Sacramento Preacher On Comments After Orlando Mass Shooting: 'I Don't Regret Anything I Said'

SACRAMENTO (CBSLA.com) — A Sacramento Baptist preacher behind a controversial sermon about the Orlando mass shooting is defending his comments.

The sermon by Pastor Roger Jimenez was posted to YouTube but has since been removed for "violating YouTube's police on hate speech," according to a message posted on the clip.

Jimenez in the clip went as far as praising the deadly attack at the Pulse, a gay nightclub, that killed 49 people and wounded about 50 others, according to CBS Sacramento.

"Are you sad that 50 pedophiles were killed today? Um, no, I think that's great! I think that helps society. I think Orlando, Florida is a little safer tonight," he said in the sermon.

And on Tuesday, he spoke with another news organization in the Sacramento area, saying: "I don't regret anything that I said, and I don't take back anything that I said."

"The point that I was making," he said, "is that the Bible teaches that these people deserve to die. God puts the death penalty."

"If God puts the death penalty on it, God says they deserve to die, and then they die, this is not something that we as Christians need to be mourning," he said. "In the same way that this gunman went in there and killed all these people. He violated scripture. God says that he deserves to die for taking their lives. We don't need to be mourning his death either."

Meanwhile, Kevin Johnson, Sacramento's mayor, took to Twitter Monday to condemn the remarks made in that sermon.

Sunday's massacre was the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history.