Does your company have a "diversity" executive?
After a hiatus of several years working for a competitor, a large company I had worked for previously made me an offer to come back that I couldn't refuse.
When I returned and sat through the mandatory orientation, I was struck by all the talk of "diversity" and "harassment" training. Not much was said about business. The company even had something called a "chief diversity officer."
The implication of all the training was basically that men needed to watch what they said and did. You don't want to be accused of sexual harassment or insensitive or offensive comments about someone's race or gender or "sexual orientation." It was all very stifling.
As Catholics, we know about respect for the person. We start right off with respect for life itself. At the moment of conception, a human life is formed. God infuses a soul into the physical creature that the husband and wife have helped Him create. With this knowledge in hand, we know a thing or two about respect. The diversity training made no reference to this, of course.
Diversity training is politically correct nonsense. It has nothing to say to a Catholic man. A Catholic man at work, living his faith, could never offend or harass a woman. Even to speak in a disrespectful manner, no less an impure way, about a woman is simply unacceptable.
Truth be told, the Catholic Church raised the status of women. A quick example: chivalry. Knights in the Middle Ages bore special respect for a woman and womanhood. Their example of womanhood: Our Lady. Even the term "Our Lady" comes from the language of Europe's Middle Ages.
If you're not familiar with these facts, you should be. That's why we spend some time every morning in reading and study. Learn the faith, it's facts and history. Heck, you've got to sit through nonsense like diversity training - make some time for the Truth.
Of course, Truth pretty much can't find its way into diversity training. When it comes to living according to Truth, well, that's up to us Catholic men at work.
When I returned and sat through the mandatory orientation, I was struck by all the talk of "diversity" and "harassment" training. Not much was said about business. The company even had something called a "chief diversity officer."
The implication of all the training was basically that men needed to watch what they said and did. You don't want to be accused of sexual harassment or insensitive or offensive comments about someone's race or gender or "sexual orientation." It was all very stifling.
As Catholics, we know about respect for the person. We start right off with respect for life itself. At the moment of conception, a human life is formed. God infuses a soul into the physical creature that the husband and wife have helped Him create. With this knowledge in hand, we know a thing or two about respect. The diversity training made no reference to this, of course.
Diversity training is politically correct nonsense. It has nothing to say to a Catholic man. A Catholic man at work, living his faith, could never offend or harass a woman. Even to speak in a disrespectful manner, no less an impure way, about a woman is simply unacceptable.
Truth be told, the Catholic Church raised the status of women. A quick example: chivalry. Knights in the Middle Ages bore special respect for a woman and womanhood. Their example of womanhood: Our Lady. Even the term "Our Lady" comes from the language of Europe's Middle Ages.
If you're not familiar with these facts, you should be. That's why we spend some time every morning in reading and study. Learn the faith, it's facts and history. Heck, you've got to sit through nonsense like diversity training - make some time for the Truth.
Of course, Truth pretty much can't find its way into diversity training. When it comes to living according to Truth, well, that's up to us Catholic men at work.
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