VICTORIA — For the fall session of the legislature, the New Democrats looked for an issue to underscore the divisions among the MLAs elected last year as B.C. Conservatives.

They found one that delivered the goods with singular effectiveness.

The result, almost the first order of business when legislature convened Monday, was the following motion: “That this House condemns the intolerant views of the Association for Reformed Political Action (ARPA), including its harmful discrimination against transgender people, its belief that homosexuality is ‘immoral’ and its explicit policy goal of restricting abortion access in B.C.”

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ARPA bills itself as a “grassroots Christian political advocacy organization,” dedicated to bringing “a bi

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