CBC. “It’s a time when support is so essential and, unfortunately, for a lot of us we don’t get it in places like our workplace.”Those meetings ultimately resulting in the congregation voting to fire her in July 2020.
The majority of those who voted in favor of ousting Joplin said they did so “fully or in part” out of adherence to a religious belief.
The decision left Joplin feeling “isolated” from her own faith.“For that to happen within that context of a caring community – I think one of the toughest things for me was knowing that I’m going through one of the most consequential and difficult seasons that I’ll ever go through in my life and I’m pretty much isolated from my faith community, from the place that I would most naturally go to.