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 Wiccan Loses Human Rights Tribunal Case Against Langara College Author: Rebecca Tebrake Source: Vancouver Sun Title: WICCAN LOSES HUMAN RIGHTS TRIBUNAL CASE AGAINST LANGARA COLLEGE The B.C. Human Rights Tribunal has dismissed a woman's complaint that Langara College kicked her out of a continuing studies program based on her Wiccan beliefs. Sally Wild, a practising Wiccan, filed a complaint with the tribunal on Aug. 7, 2007 after she was temporarily kicked out of the school's three-year Integrative Energy Healing Program in early May of that year. In the tribunal documents, the school said it removed Wild from the program after she allegedly told her teachers and classmates that she would harm herself if her boyfriend wasn't in her life and that she "had the mentality of a good sniper." Additional Article Link: [Click HERE] | |
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| No Sympathy For Her | Aug 12th. at 3:14:40 am EDT |
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Moonlight Wolf (Bradford, England) - Email Me She's pulling the discrimination card, plain and simple. Firstly she claims she was dismissed on the grounds of religious discrimination, yet her teachers did not know she was Wiccan, then she claimed she was also discriminated because she had a disability yet she never put this down on her form. How on earth does someone discriminate you on religious and disability grounds if you did not disclose either? It's like people who pull the race card when they're being criticised. (aka:"I disagree with what you're doing because..." "You're just being racist.") I also don't recall having high intuition and exeptional perceptiveness as being a disability. Yes she has mental issues and needs help with these matters. The college felt threatened by her behaviour, not by her faith. |
| Hold The Bus | Aug 12th. at 1:30:45 am EDT |
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Ander s. Drake (hays, Kansas) - Email Me "The Wiccan faith is often associated with witches. The accused teacher swore in an affidavit to the tribunal that she told Wild "some people might be uncomfortable with some of her language," and "that we, as a society had come a long way, as in the past, we used to burn witches." The teacher said she did not know Wild was a Wiccan. If the instructor didn't know she was a Wiccan then why make a comment about society burning witches. It is inconstant, she must have know that Wild was different, most Wiccan's/pagans wear some kind of jewelry. As far as loud behavior and having emotional problems with her boy friend nothing sounds more normal for college students. It sounds more like she needed to talk to a therapist than an administer. Really with out some context in which things were said i don't believe any one could really judge what went on. It really sounds like a lot of this was a misunderstanding. I think all of us have at times acted a little crazy, I really don't think she should be label as some crazy Wiccan. |
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Draken (Bronx, New York) - Email Me - Web And the media's running with the _rare_ crazy in the Wiccan community. How about focusing on reconstructionist crazies in the US like the so-called "Creativity Movement" (formerly known as the "World Church of the Creator") ? Aww, did I just hurt the trolls' feelings? |
| Comment . . . | Aug 11th. at 8:41:00 pm EDT |
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R. Cicero (Seattle, Washington) - Email Me I judge other people all the time. You can definitely leave me alone with your houseplants, though--if you could only overlook all my other colorful problems! On a serious note, I believe the neo-pagan community has actually been trumped on this issue. The award for largest religious shroud under which the devious, dangerous and most silly seek cover is: Christianity! Still so very popular on death row. There's simply nothing Jesus won't forgive you for! It's a real bargain, but I'd rather live free and cuss over our shortcomings any day of the week. |
| With A Big Headscratch.... | Aug 11th. at 5:53:02 pm EDT |
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Friday Scott (Middleton, Wisconsin) - Email Me I have to wonder exactly how much stability is actually required to obtain a college degree in 'Energy Healing' to begin with. Granted, it seems likely the plaintiff has a few admitted screws loose, ...I'm just wondering how a college full of purported healers managed to completely not handle it. Perhaps the plaintiff was not covered for pre-existing energetic conditions? Obviously the whole thing's farcical to read about, but it seems to be another case of the press only leaving out the 'self-described' qualifier on Wiccan when something completely surreal is going on. |
| Unfortunately... | Aug 11th. at 3:06:25 pm EDT |
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Lora (Leominster, Massachusetts) - Email Me Most colleges and universities simply do not have any capacity to deal with mental illness in either students or faculty. There were apparently many people who knew that Seung-Hui Cho was mentally ill and possibly a danger, yet nobody did much of anything about it. There have been many instances of both students and professors with mental illness issues, but colleges and universities seem to refuse to avail themselves of the expertise of their own psychology departments when it comes to policy on this subject. At most large employers, any suspicion of mental illness that impairs someone from performing their job well results in the manager requiring the employee to get treatment before resuming full time duties--this is done for safety purposes as well as insurance requirements. You don't want a horrible accident to happen and the insurers to think you knew of a risk but didn't disclose it, because that would void your policy. You obviously don't want the employee to be unable to attend to their work, either. I don't see why universities can't have a similar policy. The lack of prior disability disclosure is more of a technical point than anything else. She might have been diagnosed after enrollment rather than before. Also, the same disability might have prevented her from working through the paperwork and following up on it adequately; I used to have many students whose parents would file their initial disability paperwork, but then you'd never hear anything from that student again and they wouldn't show up to the special test sessions for ADHD students--because they forgot to show up at a different place, because they had ADHD and couldn't pay attention to the fact that the quiet distraction-free room was in another building, they simply followed their habits. |
| Another Stellar Example | Aug 11th. at 2:41:54 pm EDT |
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Lady-hearted Mojo (Irving, Texas) - Email Me This is yet another stellar example of the rampant dysfunction that plagues Neo-Pagan communites and, apparently, Canadians have the same problems with these head-cases that we do in the states. Honestly, for a path that preaches balance, growth, self-examination, and self-responsibility I've never met so many individuals who are as dysfunctional, delusional, and mal-adjusted as those walking this path. For every Wiccan who does more than pay lip-service to their path there's a dozen I wouldn't even entrust with the care of my houseplants. It's almost as if these people use Neo-Paganism as an excuse for this kind of behavior, and if, god forbid, you call them on it you get the "judgemental" card tossed at you. |
| Yuck. | Aug 11th. at 1:45:37 pm EDT |
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Finn (San Marcos, Texas) - Email Me I'm glad she lost. Being a lunatic is not grounds to sue your school. It is grounds for them to kick you out though. Anyone who makes comments to the effect that they will injure themselves or idiotic things like "I have the mentality of a sniper" needs a mental health evaluation. She should be grateful they let her back into the school once they judged she wasn't a danger to anyone (including herself) . Well, that isn't entirely true. She is a danger to everyone calling themselves Wiccan. She is one more kook stealing the limelight to make everyone look crazy. |
| Are You Recording This? | Aug 11th. at 1:42:36 pm EDT |
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R. Cicero (Seattle, Washington) - Email Me Absolutely hilarious. That's one big load of dirty laundry, baby. Yes, that is always a good strategy, trying to validate your magical powers while referencing sniping and your own eroding emotional state and then recklessly accusing others of things that can never be proved. That usually works. In real life, squeaky wheels rarely get the grease. The herd tends to ignore them, abandon them, or send them to the dump. |
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