Human Rights Tribunal Sides for a Christian Graduate after This Company Rejected Her Application and Harassed Her for Her Faith

Aimee Herd : Mar 3, 2016
Christian Today

"Graduates from Trinity Western University are not welcome in our company... God bless is very offensive to me..." the executive wrote to Bethany after she applied.

(Canada)—Bethany Maquette was likely excited about a potential position at an adventure company in Canada as she applied for an internship as an assistant guide. (Photo: Facebook/via Christian Today)

However, those hopes were quashed when the CEO of Amaru Wilderness Corporation not only wrote back rejecting her application, but included extremely offensive comments regarding her faith, and her alma mater.
 
Bethany received a rejection notice from an executive named, Olaf Amundsen, according to the Christian Today report, who wrote, "Graduates from Trinity Western University are not welcome in our company." 
 
Then in later emails, the company's then CEO, Christophe Fragassi wrote, "God bless is very offensive to me. I do not want to be blessed by some guy who was conceived by a ----- outside of marriage..." 
 
Other emails carrying the same vitriolic opinion against Christianity were received by Bethany from Fragassi. 
 
In testifying to the tribunal, Bethany Paquette explained that the CEO "was clearly the directing mind of the company" and "should be held personally liable" for his anti-faith harassment.
 
According to CT's report, the tribunal ruled that:  "both Amaruk, through its employee's actions, and Mr Fragassi-Bjornsen have discriminated against Ms Paquette on the ground of religion by harassing her for presumed religious beliefs and declining to accept her application for an internship, in part because of those beliefs."
 
Fragassi was ordered to pay $8,500 as well as another $661 in court fees to Bethany, who—according to her lawyer—now leads dog-sled tours in northern Canada.