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4/5/2006
4:35:50 pm EDT
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Self-Proclaimed Pagan Claims She Was Fired Due To Bias
Author: The Associated Press Source: West Central Tribune (Minn)
Title: SELF-PROCLAIMED PAGAN CLAIMS SHE WAS FIRED DUE TO BIAS
The former companion of a self-proclaimed vampire is claiming the Princeton School District pushed to have her fired from her job as a school bus driver because of her pagan beliefs.
Julie Carpenter, of Princeton, has filed a complaint with the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, accusing the school district of religious discrimination.
Stephen Befort, a University of Minnesota Law School professor, said federal law protects pagans against employer discrimination, so the case will depend on whether the school district can show it had other reasons for seeking to have Carpenter fired.
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| ... | Apr 5th. at 7:48:40 pm EDT
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Draken (Bronx, New York) - Email Me - Web
Wow, another biased article from a self-proclaimed Jebus worshipper.
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| I Have No Kids, Only Two Cats But, | Apr 5th. at 7:19:05 pm EDT
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Libertarian (Langley, Washington) - Email Me - Web
I wouldn't want this women driving them to the Vet.
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| Same Old Problem. | Apr 5th. at 5:41:43 pm EDT
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bigcat (peoria, Illinois) - Email Me
Considering that her husband was trying to run for public office on the vampire plan, Someone put two and two together and came up with five. She may not be what everyone thought- but if she mentioned, even in passing that she was a witch- someone would have come up with the idea that she was "strange" enough to be a threat. It isn't true, but it is the way of the world, unfortunately. She may claim bias, but proving it may be another matter. I wish her well, and I hope that even if she doesn't get reinstated, she may find another job in a more enlightened place.
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| If It Walks Like A..... | Apr 5th. at 4:58:52 pm EDT
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Terry (Irvington, Virginia) - Email Me
This certainly appears to be a pagan variant of the old saw, we didn't fire you because you're black. However, we only allow those around here with a skin reflectance index above 15%. (19% is the calibration standard for photographic averages based on caucasian skin tones.)
Some pagans encourage that approach, whether for lack of understanding the nature of religious rights issues, or from their own biases and lack of support for civil rights. It's even been a problem within leadership of some pagan legal assistance groups, some of whose leaders are so adjusted to RRR social practices as to support token symbols of pagan paths, but be overtly hostile towards protection of far more serious practices intrinsic to many deeply held paths, when those mean protection from broad but oppressive and discriminatory laws about actions or speech which diverge from Protestant value based social notions for others.
For the most part, it doesn't matter if someone is an iguana worshipper or likes a snakeskin based deity, or gives any particular name to a religion, as those aren't highly visible aspects of religion, not ones with serious impact on others. It does matter if skyclad ritual is normal to one religion, and various sexual practices, financial norms, time related values (eg, all night drum circles, not annoying Sunday morning bell ringing) , are present alongside supremacist cults which try to suppress visible signs that other people live well in ways very different than their own. When those supremacist cults try to indoctrinate kids with hateful intolerance contrary to the needs of diverse society, that can result in a major issue, as the kids simply seeing people whose outward lives are very different sends a message that the parents and churches claiming to be obligatory role models are frauds and abusers.
Well, if that shoe fits, prosecute those deserving. In this case, that may include school officials and other politicians and voters backing them. A few visible pagans victimized as local lightning rods over such issues can help the kids, if courts can be prodded to act honestly as they rarely do, and inspect these common mechanisms of child abuse in a religion neutral and inclusive manner.
Unless there's a lot not told in this story, this firing appears to be for exactly the opposite reason from that cited. The pagan bus driver did serve as an important role model for local kids, even if a very subtle one.
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