Religious leaders, politicians, principals unite against Manitoba’s ‘anti-bullying’ Bill 18
MANITOBA, March 20, 2013 ( LifeSiteNews.com ) – A growing number of Manitoba politicians and religious leaders have added their voice to the escalating clamor against the NDP’s proposed Bill 18, saying that it would force faith-based schools to hand over their cherished freedoms to agenda-driven government bureaucrats. Winnipeg Conservative MP Rod Bruinooge (Winnipeg South) came out in opposition to the bill last week after drawing attention to a number of letters written to NDP Premier Greg Selinger by concerned religious groups from around the province. Member of Parliament Rod Bruinooge "I think they have valid concerns and I support them," said Bruinooge to reporters. Rabbi Avrohom Altein, director of Winnipeg’s Jewish Learning Centre, wrote to Selinger that the bill’s requirement that gay-straight alliances be accommodated in every school “is based on a mistaken premise that will only serve to undermine the very principles of equality that it seeks to