Culture Wars and the Workplace 1
Culture Wars and the Workforce I have been a business owner for most of my life. For the past twenty years of my professional life it has been my policy that a business is not ideological, religious, or politically biased. Rather, the individuals in the firm are ideological, religious, and politically opinionated. The purpose of the business is to sell a product or service (or plural) with as much philosophical neutrality as possible to reach the broadest audience possible and resist the urge to segment the market along with personal bias. The purpose of my (and most) business is not to politically manipulate, persuade, or even to evangelize the people with the gospel of Christ. My purpose is to do right by the consumer, be they vacationers or backyard dreamers in my case. So, I specifically set out to build Timberroot to be politically neutral and utterly silent in the culture wars. I wanted a workplace that was free for Christians to f...