Last week, Vancouver’s Pride Society issued a statement warning the BC Liberals that they will be banned from future Pride parades unless action was taken against Throness after the MLA publicly contradicted party leader Andrew Wilkinson and vowed to continue spending tax dollars on ads in the anti-LGBTQ magazine. In recent years, he’s shared a stage with anti-abortion activists and opposed the SOGI-123 anti-bullying initiative.
Throness, the MLA for Chilliwack–Hope, has a long and well-documented history advocating hardline social conservative views. Andrew Wilkinson’s BC Liberals have been condemned by a second Pride parade society after BC Liberal MLA Laurie Throness publicly defended conversion therapy and expressed his support for anti-LGBTQ views.Ī few weeks ago, PressProgress was first to report that Throness and a dozen other BC Liberal MLAs had spent thousands of public tax dollars on ads in an anti-LGBTQ magazine alongside articles condemning conversion therapy and abortion.
