After reading all of this, I can't help but think this is one guy looking for his moment in the sun.
If you look at the wording of what happened at the vote, they already had a policy believing ALL Albertans have equal rights. The vote was to replace that with a statement with a list. All of the arguments against were in the spirit of trying to be as inclusive as possible, and the word all happens to include everyone. Voting down this proposal upheld the verbiage of 'ALL'.
They added verbiage to their Constitution to defend the rights of ALL Albertans also. Objectively, this is a win for those concerned over this issue.
This really is nothing more than media trolling for a story. I have some friends in the LGBTQ community who attended this and voting against the motion also. They also felt that members were genuine in their wish to be inclusive.
I found it interesting that Don Braid said that Wildrose used to have the most inclusive rights policy in politics, but not anymore after this vote as though something had been removed. The vote kept the existing policy in tact, then another vote beefed it up in another section of party documents. Given this, they've made it more inclusive with the added content.
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