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Leaked Twitter posts provided to Postmedia show Kiryakos posting about a “Christian genocide” and the “forced breeding” of Muslims.

“Muslim forces continue to use murder, rape, kidnapping, terror and forced breeding in pursuit of Christian Genocide in the Middle East while the world turns a blind eye,” the post reads.

In another post, Kiryakos responds to a Twitter user talking about about gay-straight alliances in schools, saying “you’re not interested in protecting children with GSAs, you’re interested in converting them.”

Those tweets have since been deleted.

“The possibility of a grown man sharing a washroom, to me, is a perversion,” she said in her video. “I used the words ‘alternative lifestyle’ because the people I engaged with on Twitter were using those words, so I repeated them back. I voiced my honest opinion and, yes, I asked if the NDP had an agenda.”

She also discusses her advocacy for “free speech” and her parents fleeing “religious persecution in Iraq, where they were not free to live their faith or express their views.”

In a post accompanying her video, Kiryakos wrote she is stepping aside as not “to take away from the election or my fellow United Conservative Party candidates.”

UCP spokesperson Christine Myatt confirmed the party accepted Kiryakos’ resignation on Sunday night.

Myatt declined to comment further on Kiryakos’ Facebook post.

“I don’t have any information about that,” she said, when asked if the party could elaborate on Kiryakos’ claim on social media that “someone outside of our party has been threatening to smear me.”