They apologized “emphatically and unreservedly” for their role in creating a deeply divided gay community in Toronto.

They said they’re sorry for Pride Toronto’s “history of anti-blackness” and “repeated marginalization of the marginalized” within the community.

They didn’t elaborate on who has been marginalized. But considering the words posted on Facebook by Pride co-chair Aaron GlynWilliams about me in June — he indicated I didn’t deserve a “seat at the table” with him and others because of my differing (conservative) views — perhaps I fit into the marginalized category too.

Pride Toronto’s board apologized to those in law enforcement who’d been unfairly attacked, for their lack of decisive decision-making and lack of understanding of the needs of the black queer community, for their repetition of past mistakes and for the mishandling of the Black Lives Matter protest at the July 3 parade (that is, the backtracking on BLM’s demands), which they claim has led to racism within the gay community.

They said they’re sorry so many times in their statement — posted late Monday night on their website — I truly thought Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement, had come a few weeks early.

Efforts to reach GlynWilliams, or co-chair Alica Hall, or anyone at Pride Toronto who would actually speak Tuesday were unsuccessful. Their media person left last week and it seems no one is prepared to take calls at Pride HQ.

They did not apologize to the gay Jewish community, who’d been forced to cope for years with the existence of the hateful Queers Against Israeli Apartheid (QuAIA) group in the parade. They did mention that they’ve learned their lessons and will pay more attention to the recommendations of the community advisory panel of 2011, which resulted from the uproar over QuAIA’s existence.

They did not apologize to city taxpayers either, who, as I revealed in a column last week, shelled out more than $1 million in grants and services in kind for the Pride parade this year, including well over $500,000 in policing alone.

But after conceding that they’ve messed up things royally — that they’ve helped divide the community and have done anything but show strong leadership over the past several months — they left out one important element.

They did not offer to resign en masse, as they should, to pave the way for a completely fresh board with members who have the balls not to allow BLM to hijack the organization, as this ineffectual group clearly has.

In fact, in their ridiculous-bordering-on-sophomoric statement, they contend that they received and read more than 1,100 emails from members of the gay community and heard from more than 700 community members at the end of August town halls (one of which I attended and which was hijacked by BLM).

“We will listen ... we are listening,” their statement says.

If they are listening, it’s extremely selective. Those who tried to express an alternative view at the Aug. 30 town hall were shouted down by a group of angry BLMers and their supporters as “racist.” The board did not try to intercede when that happened.

Their insistence on pandering to BLM and this group’s repeated shrieks of racism at anyone who dares disagree with them, will cause Pride Toronto to not only repeat their mistakes but do so to point of near implosion.

Take what the board claims as one of their important next steps to create a more “sustainable” Pride.

They say in their statement that they intend to subject the whole issue of whether the police should participate in future Pride parades to their “objective and transparent” dispute resolution process — which will include the participation of “human rights” experts.

If this is the same process that ruled repeatedly QuAIA was not hateful, I’m willing to bet there is yet another crisis waiting to happen.

Guess this board won’t be happy until they suck the life out of Pride.

Come join me and Sun editor emeritus Lorrie Goldstein at the inaugural Laser Lectures event on Sept. 28 in Thornhill at 10:30 a.m. We’ll be talking politics, of course, including the presidential race south of the border. Underdog book signing to follow. For more info check out www.laserlectures.com

SLevy@postmedia.com