Thursday, October 26, 2006

anti homo

-so i usually refrain from talking or typing or whatever about current events because i am not all about getting into long heated discussion about views and beliefs and opinions because i am not all about heated discussions... however while sipping my coffee this morning i heard about this story on the news and ya:
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2006/10/26/bc-postal.html#skip300x250


Anti-homosexuality brochure held up at Canada
Post

Canada Post says a controversial religious brochure that condemns
homosexuality will be delivered to hundreds of homes in East Vancouver,
despite
the objections of letter carriers.

The 28-page pamphlet is published by a fundamentalist Baptist group
based
in Ontario, and condemns homosexuality as ungodly, unhealthy and
unnatural. Vancouver mail sorter Andy Henderson was the first person
at his
postal station to notice the pamphlet, and was shocked by what he
read.
"The first words I saw when I picked it up were: 'The plague of
this
21st Century:
the consequences of the sin of homosexuality (AIDS).'
"
He
and the other postal employees say they consider it hate mail
and have
refused to handle it.

"You wouldn't be able to find one television station that would accept
this ad mail as a 30-second advertising spot," said Henderson. "And yet
Canada
Post will take it. And their point is, 'If it's legal, we'll
deliver
it.' "

Canada Post management told the workers on Wednesday that it's not in the
business of censorship, and said the letters would be delivered.
That
stance
prompted about 60 postal workers at the Canada Post plant in downtown
Vancouver
to hold a short protest Thursday morning.

"So the employees walked out of this facility because most people are deeply
offended by the nature of the literature," said union local president Ken
Mooney.
He told CBC News that the workers have since returned to their
jobs,
waiting to see what management is going to do next.

"I'm now told they're not going to force us to handle this mail. So they've
backed off a little bit. So we're just waiting to see how this plays
out."
Brochures 'deemed appropriate' Canada Post spokeswoman Colleen
Frick
says the company has a contract to deliver the brochure and it will do
just
that.
She notes that it was "deemed acceptable and appropriate for
mailing
under the Canada postal guide.
"The criteria is very specific.
And if
something is not deemed obscene in nature, then the item will be
acceptable for
mailing. And this particular item was deemed appropriate. So
it will be
delivered."

The union says management has now indicated that the brochures will be
put in envelopes and delivered by management personnel

so it for some reason is specifically being delivered to east vancouver and i am in east vancouver and if i receive this flyer in the mail i will find the management of canada post and where they live and fuck bitch on their door step. this shit seriously irritates me. how is crap that is obviously hate mail towards homos is deemed acceptable for mailing. if i wrote something similar towards blacks or asians or jewish or whatever it would more than likely be deem unacceptable. what is the fucking difference. it is a piece of writing slanderous against a group in society. because it is pointed at homos its okay which says to me who ever okayed it on canada posts side needs a good ol' cock in his ass to re-align what is acceptable and what is not. i do not want to get into this really because i know how i feel about this shit and it will get into an issue of what is defined as what and where is the line etc and these discussions force me to drink. but do tell me what you think and if anybody is down for some good ol' fashioned firebombing do let me know.

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