{"id":3436,"date":"2019-10-06T00:07:25","date_gmt":"2019-10-06T04:07:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=3436"},"modified":"2019-10-06T00:07:25","modified_gmt":"2019-10-06T04:07:25","slug":"one-more-victim-of-politically-correct-censorship-heather-leung-critical-of-the-lgbtq-agenda-dropped-by-tories-after-ndp-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=3436","title":{"rendered":"One More Victim of Politically Correct Censorship: Heather Leung, Critical of the LGBTQ Agenda, Dropped by Tories After NDP Protest"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"l-top-content\">\n<div class=\"adunit\">\n<div class=\"widget-advertisement advertisement pnLeaderboard\">\n<div id=\"pnLeaderBoardStickyBG\">\n<div>\n<div id=\"pn-leaderboard-ad-large\">\n<div id=\"gpt-leaderboard\" class=\"pn_dfpads adslot\" data-ad=\"[[728,90],[970,90],[970,250],[1200,90],[1200,250]]\" data-ad-ref=\"off\" data-ad-sticky=\"[[728, 90], [970, 90]]\" data-ad-sticky-sec=\"2\" data-google-query-id=\"CKKziI7fhuUCFVKqaQodLLcBdg\">\n<div id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/3081\/vs_news.com\/news\/local-news\/story_2__container__\"><iframe id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/3081\/vs_news.com\/news\/local-news\/story_2\" title=\"3rd party ad content\" name=\"google_ads_iframe_\/3081\/vs_news.com\/news\/local-news\/story_2\" width=\"970\" height=\"250\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" data-google-container-id=\"3\" data-load-complete=\"true\" data-integralas-id-f2459ef3-7b50-6572-9aba-e16d87ee0144=\"\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<div id=\"main\" class=\"l-main\">\n<article id=\"post-961113fe-6900-48ff-b088-947cbaf71780\" class=\"l-article post-961113fe-6900-48ff-b088-947cbaf71780 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-local-news tag-2019-federal-election tag-andrew-scheer tag-conservative-party-of-canada tag-ndp\">\n<header class=\"entry-header\">\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/h1>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>One More Victim of Politically Correct Censorship: Heather Leung, Critical of the LGBTQ Agenda, Dropped by Tories After NDP Protest<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n<p>[Candidates for mainstream Canadian political parities must be cyphers, never having said anything critical of privileged groups like Moslems or the LGBTQ censorship crowd. A cowardly Andrew Scheer hopped to it and, when openly homosexual and convicted shoplifter NDPer Svend Robinson commanded, he meekly obeyed and dropped candidate Heather Leung who has some private views on homosexuality. She believes in conversion therapy, feels homosexuality is perverted [there&#8217;s backup for that in the Bible] and believes some homosexuals recruit children. Wouldn&#8217;t it be better to have candidates that actually believe in something rather than programmable parrots ready to squawk out whatever the party leader decides is the party line?]<\/p>\n<h1><\/h1>\n<h1 class=\"entry-title\">Conservatives drop Burnaby North-Seymour candidate Heather Leung after homophobic comments<\/h1>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>The party says it made the decision after learning about historical comments by Leung.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-details byline\">\n<div class=\"author-wrap\"><a class=\"author\" href=\"https:\/\/vancouversun.com\/author\/harrisonmooney\"><span class=\"name\">Harrison Mooney<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"byline-dates\">Updated: October 4, 2019<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content p402_premium\">\n<figure id=\"post-1113591media-1113591\" class=\"align-none wp-caption post-img\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-post-image\" src=\"https:\/\/postmediavancouversun2.files.wordpress.com\/2019\/10\/leung_251991231-w.jpg?quality=80&amp;strip=all&amp;w=840&amp;h=630&amp;crop=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"840\" height=\"630\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"img-caption\"> Heather Leung, former Conservative candidate for Burnaby North\u2014Seymour in the 2019 federal election. <\/span> <span class=\"img-author\"> Handout \/ PNG <\/span><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class=\"article-actions\"><a class=\"icon-share\" href=\"https:\/\/vancouversun.com\/news\/local-news\/conservatives-drop-burnaby-north-seymour-candidate-after-homophobic-comments#\" data-modal-target=\"#modal-share\">Share<\/a> <a class=\"icon-adjust\" href=\"https:\/\/vancouversun.com\/news\/local-news\/conservatives-drop-burnaby-north-seymour-candidate-after-homophobic-comments#\">Adjust<\/a> <a class=\"icon-comment\" href=\"https:\/\/vancouversun.com\/news\/local-news\/conservatives-drop-burnaby-north-seymour-candidate-after-homophobic-comments#\">Comment<\/a> <a class=\"icon-print\">Print<\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The <span class=\"s1\">Conservative Party of Canada has dropped Heather Leung as their candidate in the Burnaby North\u2014Seymour riding, after video interviews surfaced in which she made homophobic comments.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=QY_oNEwUeRA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">video<\/a> that appears to be from 2016, Leung said conversion therapy provides hope to those living \u201cthe perverted homosexual lifestyle.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a 2011 <a href=\"https:\/\/vancouversun.com\/news\/local-news\/&lt;wcm_content_element&gt;%7B%22provider_name%22:%22YouTube%22,%22provider_url%22:%22https:%5C\/%5C\/www.youtube.com%5C\/%22,%22object_url%22:%22https:%5C\/%5C\/www.youtube.com%5C\/watch?v=ik_5YbMfdSc%22,%22html%22:%22&lt;iframe%20width=%5C%22640%5C%22%20height=%5C%22480%5C%22%20src=%5C%22https:%5C\/%5C\/www.youtube.com%5C\/embed%5C\/ik_5YbMfdSc?feature=oembed%5C%22%20frameborder=%5C%220%5C%22%20allow=%5C%22accelerometer;%20autoplay;%20encrypted-media;%20gyroscope;%20picture-in-picture%5C%22%20allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;%5C\/iframe&gt;%22,%22type%22:%22oembed%22,%22channels%22:%5B%22desktop%22,%22tablet%22,%22phone%22%5D%7D&lt;\/wcm_content_element&gt;\u201d target=\u201d_blank\u201d rel=\u201dnoopener\u201d&gt;video interview&lt;\/a&gt; with Burnaby NOW after the Burnaby school district was among the first in B.C. to approve a sexual orientation and gender identity policy known as SOGI, Leung repeated what NDP candidate Svend Robinson called on Friday \u201cthe hateful trope that homosexuals recruit children.\u201d&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Asked about the videos Friday while campaigning in Ontario, Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer said he had not seen them. But on Friday evening, the Conservatives distanced themselves from the candidate.&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class=\">\u201cHeather Leung is no longer representing the Conservative Party of Canada in the riding of Burnaby North\u2014Seymour,\u201d the party said in a <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservative.ca\/statement-from-the-conservative-party-of-canada-regarding-heather-leung\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news release<\/a>.\u00a0<span class=\"s1\">\u201cRecent media reports have brought to light offensive comments made by Ms. Leung saying \u2018homosexuals recruit\u2019 children, and describing the sexual orientation of the LGBTQ community as \u2018perverted.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Leung has not responded to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Conservative spokesperson Rudy Hesny said the decision came after the party had time to review Leung\u2019s comments.<\/p>\n<div>\u201cWe said in our statement, they were obviously very offensive, and we couldn\u2019t tolerate those kinds of comments,\u201d he said. \u201cIt was just a question of reviewing all of it and, as media were also reporting different comments and things like this, we were able to get all the facts.<\/div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_\" class=\"wp-caption post-img size_this_image_test aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/postmediavancouversun2.files.wordpress.com\/2019\/10\/png-1004n-robinson-074.jpg?quality=55&amp;strip=all&amp;w=640\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text wp-caption\"><span class=\"img-caption\"> Burnaby, BC: OCTOBER 04, 2019 \u2014 NDP candidate Svend Robinson addresses the media Friday, October 4, 2019 at his constituency office in Burnaby, BC about homophobic remarks Conservative Party candidate Heather Leung has made in the past.<\/span> <span class=\"img-author\"> Jason Payne \/ PNG<\/span><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Hesny said the Conservatives intend to send a letter to Elections Canada informing the agency that Leung no longer represents the party, but that it may be too late to have her party affiliation removed from the ballots, which may have already been printed.<\/p>\n<div>\u201cHer name is going to still be on the ballot but the question is if they can remove her being a representative of our party,\u201d he said. \u201cI think this is something we have to discuss with Elections Canada.<\/div>\n<p>Earlier on Friday, Robinson, the NDP candidate in the riding, challenged Scheer to denounce Leung, strip her of the candidacy and take away her party membership after the video interviews resurfaced earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p>Robinson became Canada\u2019s first openly gay MP in 1988, which resulted in death threats and the trashing of his constituency office. Through the 1980s and 1990s, he introduced at least five different private member\u2019s bills aimed at amending Canadian laws to include same-sex marriage.<\/p>\n<p>He said statements like Leung\u2019s are hateful and hurtful, especially to vulnerable youth who are struggling with their identity.<\/p>\n<p>Scheer\u2019s decision Friday echoes that of his predecessor, Stephen Harper, who set the precedent during the 2015 election when he stripped membership from an Ontario candidate who called homosexuality \u201cunnatural,\u201d but it also serves to push back against critics who have called the Conservative leader anti-gay.<\/p>\n<p>Scheer has refused during the campaign to say whether his views have changed since 2005 when he opposed same-sex marriage.<\/p>\n<p>He has promised, however, to protect LGBTQ rights.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cThere is no tolerance in the Conservative Party for those types of offensive comments,\u201d the Conservatives said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Hesny said that the party\u2019s decision Friday reflected Scheer\u2019s vision for Canada, laid out in a keynote speech delivered last May.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cI find the notion that one\u2019s race, religion, gender, or sexual orientation would make anyone in any way superior or inferior to anybody else absolutely repugnant,\u201d Scheer said then. \u201c<\/span><span class=\"s2\">And if there\u2019s anyone who disagrees with that, there\u2019s the door. <\/span><span class=\"s1\">You are not welcome here.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One More Victim of Politically Correct Censorship: Heather Leung, Critical of the LGBTQ Agenda, Dropped by Tories After NDP Protest [Candidates for mainstream Canadian political parities must be cyphers, never having said anything critical of privileged groups like Moslems or &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=3436\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2000,932,1443,2001],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3436"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3436"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3437,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3436\/revisions\/3437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}