Trinity Western grad attacked for being Christian in job rejection

Interesting incident. The Norwegian company’s emails are pretty amazing and outrageous, whether or not one agrees with Trinity Western or not.

A Trinity Western University graduate says she was “attacked” over her religion by a Norwegian wilderness tourism company, just for applying for a job.

Bethany Paquette claims her application to work in Canada’s North for Amaruk Wilderness Corp. was rejected because she’s Christian.

“It did really hurt me and I did feel really attacked on the basis that I’m a Christian,” Paquette said.

In her complaint to the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal, Paquette outlines a series of emails from executives from Amaruk Wilderness Corp.

Paquette, an experienced river rafting guide, applied to be a wilderness guide for Amaruk’s Canadian operations in the North.

She says she was shocked when she read the rejection email from Olaf Amundsen, the company’s hiring manager.

He wrote that she wasnt qualified and “unlike Trinity Western University, we embrace diversity, and the right of people to sleep with or marry whoever they want.”

Trinity Western is the Christian university in Langley, B.C., where Paquette earned her biology degree.

All students must agree to a covenant prohibiting sexual intimacy outside heterosexual marriage, under pain of possible expulsion, which has led to controversy over the university’s new law school.

Paquette was furious and told CBC, “My beliefs have developed who I am as an individual, but they don’t come into play when I am doing my job.”

Her last line is critical – can she separate her personal beliefs when doing her job, presumably with clients who do not share her values?

Trinity Western grad attacked for being Christian in job rejection – British Columbia – CBC News.