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Image via Wikipedia EDMONTON , Alberta , March 5, 2012 ( LifeSiteNews.com ) – Homeschoolers say they remain gravely concerned over the Alberta government ’s new  Education Act , even after Education Minister Thomas Lukaszuk has distanced himself from his spokeswoman’s statements that homeschoolers would be forbidden to teach controversial aspects of their religious beliefs as part of their curriculum. After learning that the province’s new  Education Act  may be opening the door to “diversity” education, and that it includes homeschools under the list of schools, LifeSiteNews had asked Donna McColl, Lukaszuk’s assistant director of communications, about the controversial issue of homosexuality as a test case. In response LSN was  told  that faith-based schools and homeschooling families would not be able to teach that homosexual behavior is a sin in their programs. But after getting flooded with complaints over the remarks, the government is now hastening to assure parents that they

EDMONTON , Alberta , February 23, 2012 ( LifeSiteNews.com ) – Under Alberta’s new Education Act, homeschoolers and faith-based schools will not be permitted to teach that homosexual acts are sinful as part of their academic program, says the spokesperson for Education Minister Thomas Lukaszuk . “Whatever the nature of schooling – homeschool, private school , Catholic school – we do not tolerate disrespect for differences,” Donna McColl, Lukaszuk’s assistant director of communications, told LifeSiteNews on Wednesday evening. “You can affirm the family’s ideology in your family life, you just can’t do it as part of your educational study and instruction,” she added. Reacting to the remarks, Paul Faris of the  Home School Legal Defence Association  said the Ministry of Education is “clearly signaling that they are in fact planning to violate the private conversations families have in their own homes.” “You can affirm the family’s ideology in your family life, you just can’t do it as pa