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If Christians Can Be Forced to Bake Cakes for Gay People…

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… Can gay pagans be forced to hire Christians?

A graduate from Trinity Western University says that a hiring manager for Canada’s North for Amaruk Wilderness Corp. informed her that her application for an internship at the company was rejected because of her Christian beliefs and education at a Christian university.

In her complaint to the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal, Bethany Paquette provided a series of discriminatory emails from executives at Amaruk.One of the emails was from hiring manager Olaf Amundsen, who told Paquette that she did not meet the minimum requirements to be a guide. He then callously added:

Additionally, considering you were involved with Trinity Western University, I should mention that, unlike Trinity Western University, we embrace diversity, and the right of people to sleep with or marry whoever they want.

Amundsen explained to Paquette that most of “the guys at the management level” in the Norwegian-owned company believe Christianity is to blame for destroying Norse culture, traditions, and its way of life.

Frankly, I think employers should have a right to employ whomever they want and sell to whomever want. But why would anyone want to work for a bunch of douchebags likes that?

Hat Tip: Weasel Zippers

Comments

  1. I am Heathen. I am done with condoning or excusing “religious” bias. Be it athiest or otherwise. No one alive is responsible for what happened in the past. Screw this organization. This isn’t what we or Pagans are about.

  2. I recall kosher delis that you could get roast beef sandwiches or cheese sandwiches, but not roast beef and cheese. I suspect they’re still around. If you wanted roast beef with cheese, you made it yourself- or went to another deli. You didn’t sue and make a scene. YoAfter all- you were in a kosher deli.

  3. This Canada’s North for Amaruk Wilderness Corp. has an openly gay top management team. Fine. I get it. They are open on Sundays and favor gay marriage. So, apparently, they have the inside view on what is “correct” and what is not “correct.”

    The cake baker also has the inside view on what is “correct” and what it not “correct.”

    So be it. Amen. It’s a draw. No human rights were violated. You can not possibly expect someone who stands against you on “principle” to bend to your will unless you cow them with overwhelming force. And then, all you get for all your effort is nothing more than the fleeting fame of having farted in the wind.

    Folks who rely on the state as a form of supreme power (GOD) are not proving anything that the Nazis didn’t already demonstrate with profound clarity. Funny how Utopians get that peace and harmony machine cranked up and got straight for the diversity crowd they cannot tolerate.

  4. Not sure what discrimination laws apply in BC but I think most employers in the US wouldn’t so blatantly say that’s why they aren’t hiring somebody. That would likely get them in trouble.

    I am amazed though just how blatant the left and especially the gay left is in their intolerance.

  5. I’m not opposed to a company not hiring a potential employee because of the potential hire does not agree with the company’s values. However, if such a thing happens, the onus is on the owners to make that statement of values explicit, and present it to each potential employee during the interview process. Otherwise, I call shenanigans. If these guys don’t want to hire Christians because they think Christian morals are incompatible with their company’s values, fine. I think they are narrow-minded, but fine. But if they are rejecting employees because they have a purely personal ax to grind with Christianity, then they are jerks.

    @ Lobogris: My personal theology doesn’t fit nicely into one particular box. Maybe you can help define it? I believe in objective right and wrong, the immortality of the soul, and the eventual end of the physical universe and its replacement. I believe that all gods worshipped throughout history have a reality to them, whether they are literal beings, forces or deified archetypes, while all being subordinate to a supreme Creator or parts of a united Whole; however, I think that people do best when they worship gods that they have a cultural connection to; Celts should not worship Chinese gods, mestizos should not worship Norse gods. I believe that the natural condition of humans is to be free and make their own decisions in the spheres of life and religion. Is that combination of beliefs compatible with Heathenry, or not?

  6. “Amundsen explained to Paquette that most of “the guys at the management level” in the Norwegian-owned company believe Christianity is to blame for destroying Norse culture, traditions, and its way of life.”

    Thank you for the further explanation as to why present day pagans still worship Odin as did Himmler.

  7. #4: Been there, done that. Glad to have Oncale vs Sundowner Offshore Oil Services that set precedent for legal recourse for those that consciously violate federal employment law.

  8. Sean L., seeing as how I am a mix, I tend to be a lot more open-minded. Not all Heathens feel this way. Unfortunately, just like other religions, they use it as an excuse for their own prejudices. “If I blame it on godh, I can do what I want”.

    RE: “I also believe that the natural condition of humans is to be free and make their own decisions in the spheres of life and religion.”

    I am new to Heathenry, but I believe this also. I will not use my beliefs as an excuse to harm others.