Vancouver letter carriers who refused to deliver anti-homosexuality brochures from a religious group got some support in the House of Commons on Friday.
Postal workers at a sorting station in East Vancouver had walked out briefly on Thursday to protest what they called "hate mail."
The contentious 28-page brochure was mailed out by a fundamentalist Baptist group in Ontario.
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The 28-page pamphlet is published by an Ontario fundamentalist Baptist group. It condemns homosexuality as ungodly, unhealthy and unnatural.
Vancouver East NDP MP Libby Davies asked the government during question period on Friday why Canada Post is distributing the brochure that she described as "nothing more than hate against gays and lesbians."
Davies also noted the brochures were not mail, but advertising.
"This hate mail would never meet the standards of any newspaper, TV or radio station in Canada. Yet Canada Post, I would point out, says that it meets their standards. Why do they have such low standards, and why don't they have a policy against this?"
Davies also pointed out that Canada Post has refused in the past to deliver advertising for the Vancouver store, The Art of Loving.
The minister responsible for Canada Post indicated he will look into the matter.
Meanwhile Vancouver police say the B.C. Hate Crime Team is investigating whether the pamphlet is hate literature.
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