Posted on 10/13/2014 7:08:54 AM PDT by massmike
A Canadian woman says that she was barred from getting a job at a wilderness tourism company because of her Christian faith.
Bethany Paquette, who is an experienced rafting guide, said she was “attacked” over her religion by Norwegian company Amaruk Wilderness Corp.
Paquette has taken her email correspondence with the company to lawyers and is preparing a case for the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal.
Describing her experience, Paquette said: “I did feel really attacked on the basis that I’m a Christian”.
She says she was shocked when she read an email sent in reply to her application by Amaruk’s hiring manager Olaf Amundsen.
It read: “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.”
In subsequent correspondence he described God as “the very reason for the most horrendous abuses and human rights violations in the history of the human race”.
However, Micheal Vonn, from the British Columbia Civil Liberties Association, said that employers are not supposed to express opinions about an applicant’s religious background.
She added: “What you have is written documentation that more or less is tantamount to a sign on the door that says no one of religious affiliation need apply for employment here.
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Sorry, we’re only hiring sexual deviants right now.
Well, as long as they didn’t refuse to bake a cake for her gay wedding, she won’t make any progress.
I’d be more sympathetic to the company’s point of view if they built their own ships, wore furs in the cold, and fought with thousand year old weapons. Basically, act like those guys in the Visa commercials.
I wonder how much this nimrod has actually studied the condition of Scandinavia before the Christian era.
They were not only a pagan culture, but practitioners of human sacrifice and eking out a living by raiding, pillaging, murdering and raping their more productive neighbors.
Is that the culture, tradition and way of life he is talking about?
I wonder how the subject of religion even came up in this context.
This is a strange one. It looks like the “Amaruk Wilderness” company may be a hoax, that the supposed job may not exist at all, and that others who have applied for the same job have received strange/offensive responses as well.
This may not be a case of anti-Christian discrimination, but rather some idiot trolling job applicants on the internet.
It was a fake website she was applying to. There was no job.
To clarify, the company is bogus. The story is real and the woman really did apply to the company and receive those hateful emails. The point of question is that the company may be a bogus company that is impersonating a tourism company when it is really a hoax or a front for something else.
Amaruk’s Twitter feed has just one entry on it – but follows a host of B.C.-based environmental extremist groups and gay activists. It could be that Amaruk is a bizarre secret project of a public B.C. leftist activist. Will the CBC follow up?
Although the company is not real, I'm guessing that there is a real homosexual deviant behind the keyboard. Mentally imbalanced, with time on his hands to 'fight' his cause.
I hope a FReeper sees and post followups to this story.
The possibility that the company & website are fake is interesting and I’d like to see that verified.
Interesting comment.
Tolkien made substantial use of the epic mythology of the Kalavala in writing Hobbit, Lord of the Rings, etc. This pagan world view is as rich as Greek and Roman mythology.
Our boy here is just nostalgic for a time when you didn’t have to wipe yer arse.
They were widely known as savvy traders. When trading broke down, you became a target for raiding.
The Middle Eastern types feared the Northmen. In ways todays Nations cannot match.
As for voluntary sacrifice, at least it wasn’t ritualistic cannibalism...
That actually sounds worse than the original story!
Savvy traders, for sure, backed by the very real threat that they could get genuinely vicious if you didn’t give them what they wanted. And, yes, they did range far and wide, including what is now Sicily and North Africa.
http://whois.net/whois/amaruk.com shows an admin contact in Anchorage
an ip lookup shows it is hosted in nevada.
Hard to believe they exist, but they do.
Which actually gives me a thought: What if the scammers invented troll companies for Identity Theft?
I believe the creator of the website and fake company could be charged with any number of fraud crimes.
Yeah I would not apply to a gay company and tout being a Christian
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