The Christian mayoral candidate in London’s civic election has scored a “massive win” after tasting bitter discrimination from her former employer, housing association L&Q.
It wasn’t discrimination for her skin color—she’s the daughter of Jamaican immigrants—but the religious views she espoused during her campaign that marriage is “between a man and a woman.” For this, she was fired from her job of 13 years, though she fought back. And won.
A Christian Mayoral Candidate in a Leftist Company
While working for housing company L&Q, Maureen Martin, 57, had risen from a temp position to become a manager overseeing staff. The views that got her in hot water with the company had less to do with the insights she drew regarding the challenges facing minorities, including her own demographic, and more to do with the solution she proposed, as a mayoral candidate interested in bettering the lives of Londoners….