I mean, if she had claimed to be a saint or an angel, would she also have lost her job?
Joanna
Stephen Philion wrote:
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> *Princeton school district says it only requested woman's removal*
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> A Princeton woman says she is literally the victim of a modern-day
> ‘witch hunt’.
>
> Julie Carpenter says she was fired from her job as a school bus driver
> and her neighbors are requesting her eviction because of her religious
> beliefs as a self-proclaimed ‘witch’. Carpenter is the wife of
> Jonathon Sharkey, a ‘vampire’ who is campaigning for governor.
>
> "I can't sleep, my appetite's gone,” says Carpenter. “I haven't eaten
> in a couple of days.”
>
> Carpenter says she never had a problem with her job until last week,
> when she mentioned being a witch. She says her employer said she was a
> great driver. Carpenter had been driving a bus for five years.
>
> She said she never once discussed being a witch with any children she
> drove on her bus.
>
> “I got to know them on a personal level,” she says. “I treated them
> with respect; my main goal is treat others as you would have yourself
> be treated.”
>
> The Princeton school district request that she have no contact with
> students, and says she is not a role model.
>
> The district says it can legally request her removal. “We have the
> right, that if we feel if somebody is not what we want them to be with
> children, or any other reason, all we have to do is let them know.”
>
> Sharkey says they plan to sue the district, saying their action is a
> violation of their civil rights. “I think this was a witch hunt, a
> lynching,” says Sharkey. “They are appalled at what I am, so they took
> it out on my wife.”
>
> Both parties my have convincing cases, attorneys say.
>
> Civil rights attorney Larry Leventhal says that if the district has “a
> good faith belief that being a witch involves a complex of actions
> that puts the children in jeopardy, perhaps they can” dismiss Carpenter.
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