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News: Discrimination against a Vancouver Pagan involved in BDSM
By Psyche | April 10, 2008
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Vancouver Pagan Peter Hayes claims he was discriminated against when an officer refused to grant him the permit he needed to get a chauffeur’s job.
Hayes maintained, Barker took him to a small room, asked why he was wearing black clothes and told him he was being denied the permit because the department had a record of a woman in 2003 who suggested he was involved in a cult.
No one from the force ever called Hayes about that complaint and the cult named was actually the title of a science fiction book: Tarnsman of Gor by John Norman.
The woman, Hayes insisted, was an angry former lover.
Hayes said Barker wouldn’t give him many details, except to say the concern had to do with paganism, Wiccan magic as well as role-playing, master-slave sexual practices. He was told he posed “an extreme risk of recruiting passengers/customers into my cult during my work hours if I were granted the chauffeur’s permit.”
Canada.com, “Court shoots down VPD attempt to block rights hearing“
Naturally, Hayes complained to British Columbia’s Human Rights Tribunal. However,
Police went to the courts, arguing the tribunal and a lower court judge erred in agreeing to hear Hayes’ complaint because the laws designed to protect the sexual orientation of gays and lesbians did not extend to protecting types of sexual practices.
Reuters.com, “Canada panel may rule if sex practices protected“
A panel at a BC Court of Appeal unanimously ruled that the police motion premature as “the tribunal’s hearing was to decide what, if any, sexual practices deserved legal protection”. The tribunals chairwoman was “unsure if the human rights code did that”.1
Yet Canada.com notes that the “courts have long said consensual bondage or sado-masochism is part of normal and acceptable adult sexual behaviour that does not offend community standards.”
Frankly I’m surprised to hear of this happening in an urban city like Vancouver. What are your thoughts on this?
See “Canada panel may rule if sex practices protected” and “Court shoots down VPD attempt to block rights hearing” for more.
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