American Christian bigots like American Family Association and Focus on the Family have been saying this Gays = Nazis stuff for quite a while. I'm not surprised it's found its way up here. The "Unite the right" initiative brought a lot of people together under one umbrella, and unfortunately some of those people are the
**** fire-and-brimstone Bible thumpers.
I give Jason Kenney credit for this much: he has made an effort to rein in these types. Last month he booted a candidate out of the party for bringing Sons of Odin members to a UCP event. Earlier this year at the party policy convention, he urged the voters to not support hard-line social conservatism. They didn't listen to him, but he did plead with the voters to not be "the Lake of Fire Party" as somebody phrased it. And he said that while he's leader they're not going to implement what he sees as hard-line social policy. He talks about Rachel Notley in the kindest, most polite terms. Overall I think he has made a deliberate effort to resist the worst elements of the right-wing, and to avoid giving critics any ammunition. I think he learned this from Stephen Harper. While Harper was head of the Conservatives, the worst people in the party were muzzled or evicted. Kenney is doing the same.
I expect that Kenney will have a private meeting with Jim Carp and announce that he's satisfied with Carp's explanation and apology, and reiterate that the UCP doesn't accept hate.
-k