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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...

OTTAWA, March 11, 2013 ( LifeSiteNews.com ) - The Manitoba NDP government's proposed anti-bullying law, Bill 18, which would force all schools in the province to accommodate homosexual student clubs, is “unconstitutional,” according to Honourable Vic Toews , Regional Minister for Manitoba and Member of Parliament for Provencher . Toews also serves as the federal Minister of Public Safety . Vic Toews "Recently there has been a significant amount of discussion surrounding Provincial Bill 18 and its implications for education and religious freedom," Toews said in a statement sent to LifeSiteNews.  "While this is exclusively a provincial matter and therefore I cannot take any legislative or other official action in respect to provincial legislation, I certainly do not support Bill 18."  Toews is the federal representative for the city of Steinbach, where more than 1,200 people gathered at Steinbach Christian High School recently to express their c...