Posted on 06/09/2019 6:23:53 PM PDT by marshmallow
Pauline Hoffmann resigned her post as dean of St. Bonaventure University's communication school, but says she did it under pressure.
She also claims the school denied her a promotion to provost, the university's highest academic position.
Why?
Hoffmann says it is because she is a woman and Wiccan.
In a lawsuit filed in Buffalo federal court, the St. Bonaventure professor – she is still on the faculty there – claims her religion and gender played a role in her forced resignation as dean and her failure to win a promotion she feels she deserved.
She is seeking her job back, lost pay and an unspecified amount in damages.
"I was angry but also confused and hurt," Hoffmann said of her treatment by the school's leadership. "It was like someone telling you, 'Don't be you.' "
A St. Bonaventure spokesman declined to comment Thursday, noting that the issue is a personnel matter and now in litigation.
In court papers, Hoffmann said the university was aware of her religion, but things turned bad in the fall of 2011 when she made it clear she intended to speak about Wicca with the student television station.
"They always want to talk to the witches at Halloween," she said of the student media at St. Bonaventure, "and I just wanted to give the school a heads up."
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I feel gutted.
The school’s name honors a saint.
This saint believed in (and the school believes in) the Christ, the Son of the living God.
Wiccans believe in other deities I some instances or in none but in some kind of “force”.
What then is she doing at a university that is not congruent with her belief system as a Wiccan?
I imagine it is under those grounds that she was terminated.
Schools with religious affiliation need to cut all ties with the government.
St. Bonaventure. Is that perhaps, just perhaps, a Catholic school? How is it they had a wiccan on staff in the first place?
The government needs to sever all ties with all schools other than the Service Academies.
So no Jews, then?
She cut her own neck years ago, when she promised to start speaking out about being a Witch. That is the wrong employer for a Proud-out-of the Coven-Witch.
Most donors would not like it. It would completely change the apparent nature of that school.
That's the new "thing." Join an organization you hate, then proceed to undermine it. If they try to kick you out, scream "racism" and "discrimination."
What a witch.
Wiccan? shouldn’t she have brewed up a spell instead of suing?
or is their a shortage of iron kettles and eye of newt?
Too much “song of St. Francis”
That is sometimes the first group that people bring up, so should Roman Catholics teach at private Jewish Universities?
I imagine that neither have any business teach at the others universities and I imagine that many from both sides would agree with me.
And I imagine that many Jews would not even consider doing so (teaching at one) and I imagine that the same is felt among Roman Catholics.
But at least Jews and Roman Catholics have some commonality being of the Abrahamic faiths but this is not at all found in Wicca, the ancient religion from the 1920’s.
Looks like she might have at least a half dozen cats.
A wacko? A wicked? A wicket? A wonkette? Maybe she can make some equally stupid religion.
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