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Has UCP Leader Jason Kenney come to his lake of fire crisis?

That was the dramatic point in the 2012 election campaign when Wildrose started slipping after a candidate said gays would forever suffer in a literal lake of fire.

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Today, Kenney’s aspiring and current candidates have made more comments that are homophobic, racist, Islamophobic, misogynist and even white supremacist than Danielle Smith ever faced from her erratic Wildrose crew.

And her party was flattened after being far ahead at the start.

Much of the current talk — including education critic Mark Smith’s homophobic screed, not to mention his casual line about beating children — sinks to the level of truly disgusting.

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Such views may always be with us, but they have no place anywhere near the corridors of an Alberta government.

Mark Smith (no relation to Ms. Smith) equated homosexuality with pedophilia. Relations between same-sex couples can’t really be love, he suggested.