Postal Workers Refuse to Deliver "Hate Mail"

[Kayaksoup]

I am not sure how I feel about this story that is just breaking here in Vancouver. It seems very similar to the pharmacists who refuse to fill Birth Control Prescriptions; the postal workers don't want to deliver a pamphlet that they find morally repugnant and are calling hate mail. As far as I can gather from the news, it is an anti-homosexual article.
This Link (http://www.canada.com/globaltv/bc/index.html#) may have the story on it (having trouble finding anything in print). So, if I am against the pharmacists refusing to fill BC, I must be against the postal workers refusing to deliver (they are being threatened with disciplinary action if they do not deliver).
Thoughts?

ETA: if you scroll doen, there is a video of the story.

[momqat]

I don't necessarily see them as similar -- on one hand, a customer is requesting a prescription and the pharmacist is refusing to provide a medication that has been medically ordered for her. On the other, the pamphlets are being sent unsolicited to people who may be very upset by receiving such (well, I can't print what I think of it... :mad: ).

I wonder what would have happened had the pamphlets been mailed in envelopes and nobody would have seen the contents until it was received...

[MikeC]

If I, as an individual, can decide what I will do and what I won't do based on my own personal beliefs, when my personal beliefs cause problems for my employment, isn't one way to solve this to seek other employment?

Suppose I'm a computer support technician (as I was for many years) and I believed firmly in the "right to life;" assuming that I'm working for a computer company and not as a self-employed consultant, does that mean that I can refuse to do computer support for a family service agency that provides abortion counseling?

If I'm an auto mechanic and I work for a repair company and I firmly believe in the "right to choose," can I then refuse to work on a car that has a "Right to Life" bumper sticker?

I agree with Kayaksoup; I'm not sure what I think about it, but I just wonder where this is headed....