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A Trinity Western University graduate has filed a human rights complaint in British Columbia saying she was “attacked” because she’s Christian after she was rejected in a job application from a Norwegian outdoor tourism company.
Bethany Paquette says she was rejected to work as a guide for Amaruk Wilderness Corp. in Canada’s north because she went to Trinity Western University, a Christian university in B.C. that bans sex outside of heterosexual marriage.
“It did really hurt me and I did feel really attacked on the basis that I’m a Christian,” Paquette told the CBC.
Paquette, whose Linkedin profile says she has extensive experience as a raft guide, says she was shocked by the rejection email from Amaruk’s hiring manager, Olaf Amundsen.
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Google PlusOlaf Amundsen, seen in a Google Plus profile picture.
“Unlike Trinity Western University, we embrace diversity, and the right of people to sleep with or marry whoever they want,” Amundsen, who said he has a PhD in Norse culture, wrote in an email to Paquette. “The Norse background of most of the guys at the management level means that we are not a Christian organization, and most of us actually see Christianity as having destroyed our culture, tradition and way of life.”
Paquette says her personal views would not have played a role in her job.
Amaruk, which provides private guides in the wilderness around the globe, was founded in 1998 and has about 200 employees according to Industry Canada.
The company makes no mention of religion in the “About” section of its website, but does say it embraces diversity.
“We embrace diversity and offer our staff and clients a tolerant environment free of harassment and prejudice. We respect the land and wildlife, and we do not engage in trophy hunting,” Amaruk says on its website under the title “Company ethics.”
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LinkedinBethany Paquette in her Linkedin profile picture.
Paquette said that she wrote back to Amundsen saying “your disagreement with Trinity Western University, simply because they do not support sex outside of marriage, can in fact be noted as discrimination of approximately 76 per cent of the world population!!! Wow, that’s a lot of diverse people that you don’t embrace.”
She also ended the letter with “God bless,” admitting to the CBC she did it to annoy Amundsen.
It worked.
“‘God bless’ is very offensive to me and yet another sign of your attempts to impose your religious views on me,” he wrote back.
“I do not want to be blessed by some guy… who has been the very reason for the most horrendous abuses and human rights violations in the history of the human race.”
Amundsen ended his email by saying if he met God he would “f–k him.”
Paquette’s lawyer Geoffrey Trotter told the CBC the emails were “nasty” and “over the top.”
A Trinity Western University graduate has filed a human rights complaint in British Columbia saying she was “attacked” because she’s Christian after she was rejected in a job application from a Norwegian outdoor tourism company.
Bethany Paquette says she was rejected to work as a guide for Amaruk Wilderness Corp. in Canada’s north because she went to Trinity Western University, a Christian university in B.C. that bans sex outside of heterosexual marriage.
“It did really hurt me and I did feel really attacked on the basis that I’m a Christian,” Paquette told the CBC.
Paquette, whose Linkedin profile says she has extensive experience as a raft guide, says she was shocked by the rejection email from Amaruk’s hiring manager, Olaf Amundsen.
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Google PlusOlaf Amundsen, seen in a Google Plus profile picture.
“Unlike Trinity Western University, we embrace diversity, and the right of people to sleep with or marry whoever they want,” Amundsen, who said he has a PhD in Norse culture, wrote in an email to Paquette. “The Norse background of most of the guys at the management level means that we are not a Christian organization, and most of us actually see Christianity as having destroyed our culture, tradition and way of life.”
Paquette says her personal views would not have played a role in her job.
Amaruk, which provides private guides in the wilderness around the globe, was founded in 1998 and has about 200 employees according to Industry Canada.
The company makes no mention of religion in the “About” section of its website, but does say it embraces diversity.
“We embrace diversity and offer our staff and clients a tolerant environment free of harassment and prejudice. We respect the land and wildlife, and we do not engage in trophy hunting,” Amaruk says on its website under the title “Company ethics.”
LinkedinBethany Paquette in her Linkedin profile picture.
Paquette said that she wrote back to Amundsen saying “your disagreement with Trinity Western University, simply because they do not support sex outside of marriage, can in fact be noted as discrimination of approximately 76 per cent of the world population!!! Wow, that’s a lot of diverse people that you don’t embrace.”
She also ended the letter with “God bless,” admitting to the CBC she did it to annoy Amundsen.
It worked.
“‘God bless’ is very offensive to me and yet another sign of your attempts to impose your religious views on me,” he wrote back.
“I do not want to be blessed by some guy… who has been the very reason for the most horrendous abuses and human rights violations in the history of the human race.”
Amundsen ended his email by saying if he met God he would “f–k him.”
Paquette’s lawyer Geoffrey Trotter told the CBC the emails were “nasty” and “over the top.”
