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“It would be disastrous for the CPC to alienate its large social conservative base and tell them they don’t want them, don’t care about them and don’t care about their values,” Fonseca said.

But those values should extend to, at very least, having no party policy on same sex marriage, others argue.

Last year, a group calling itself LGBTory began to campaign to change current policy, arguing it offended not just LGBT Conservatives but all those who side with the Tories on fiscal or foreign policy issues but oppose their social ideas.

The party policy, as it stands, is that Parliament and not the courts should determine the definition of marriage and that the party supports legislation defining marriage as the union of one man and one woman.

But it also allows for free votes on matters of conscience, including same sex marriage, so there’s no sense having a specific policy prohibition against it, the group says.

A resolution to delete the same-sex marriage provisions was backed by a policy congress of Alberta Conservatives earlier this year, as well as regional policy meetings in Quebec and Toronto, although that one was a close vote.

“There’s opposition, I’m not going to deny it,” said Eric Lorenzen, a member of LGBTory.

“But we do think we have broad support. I think the party wants this to happen.”

Whether the resolution makes it to the convention is currently in the hands of the party’s policy committee and they’ve not yet publicized their decision on that or any other resolutions.