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Home · Persecution · Grad student loses |Praised be Jesus Christ|Laudetur Iesus Christus| Grad student losesGrad student loses $18-million lawsuit against UBC professors MA candidate claimed she was discriminated against because of her faithPublished: Monday, January 14, 2008 An $18-million lawsuit filed by a Christian graduate student who said the University of B.C. and four professors discriminated against her because of her faith has been dismissed for lack of evidence. Cynthia Maughan, an Anglican master of arts candidate in English, initially filed the suit in 2002, claiming that after she identified herself as a Christian, certain UBC professors began to discriminate against her. A series of events that Maughan claimed constituted "ongoing discrimination" began with a 2000 e-mail in which another UBC student said former Canadian Alliance leader Stockwell Day made him "recall fondly a time-period when Christians were stoned." Maughan, who said she was offended by the e-mail, enrolled in a graduate English seminar taught by Lorraine Weir in January 2001. The student who wrote the "stoning" e-mail was in the same class. In March of 2001, Weir scheduled a class for a Sunday at the other student's home. Maughan refused to go, both because the class was on a Sunday and because of the location. Maughan acknowledged that she did schoolwork on Sundays and did not regularly attend church, but she felt that attending the Sunday seminar, under the circumstances, violated her religious beliefs. Maughan launched the $18-million lawsuit against UBC, Weir, Susanna Egan, who was the associate head of the English department, and professors Anne Scott and Judy Segal, who had written letters in support of Weir as part of an internal UBC appeal brought by Maughan. Maughan said the discrimination didn't end after UBC launched internal appeals. She filed a human rights complaint, which was dismissed by tribunal member Judy Parrack, who found that the allegations did not constitute discrimination. In the Jan. 4 B.C. Supreme Court judgment, Justice Austin Cullen said: "I see no evidence at all from which it could be inferred that anything Dr. Weir did or said during the case of the English 553 seminar was intended to promote hatred or contempt for Ms. Maughan." "This is a case which in the final analysis fails because it relies on speculation, innuendo and conjecture, rather than inferences based on the evidence." Cullen found there was no evidence Weir's refusal to move the date and location of the meeting or her subsequent actions constituted negligence and dismissed claims against the four professors and UBC. 14.01.2008. 22:28 This article hasn't been commented yet. |
Prayer for All the Deceased
By Thy resurrection from the dead, O Christ, death no longer hath dominion over those who die in holiness. So, we beseech Thee, give rest to Thy servants in Thy sanctuary and in Abraham's bosom. Grant it to those, who from Adam until now have adored Thee with purity, to our fathers and brothers, to our kinsmen and friends, to all men who have lived by faith and passed on their road to Thee, by a thousand ways, and in all conditions, and make them worthy of the heavenly kingdom.
Eternal rest, grant unto them, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon them. May the souls of the faithful departed through the mercy of God rest in peace. Amen. |Letter of St. James|
By Thy resurrection from the dead, O Christ, death no longer hath dominion over those who die in holiness. So, we beseech Thee, give rest to Thy servants in Thy sanctuary and in Abraham's bosom. Grant it to those, who from Adam until now have adored Thee with purity, to our fathers and brothers, to our kinsmen and friends, to all men who have lived by faith and passed on their road to Thee, by a thousand ways, and in all conditions, and make them worthy of the heavenly kingdom.
Eternal rest, grant unto them, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon them. May the souls of the faithful departed through the mercy of God rest in peace. Amen. |Letter of St. James|
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