1106 Professional Ethics

Religion was the place so-called “values” came from: presumably God came up with them. They included the Ten Commandments, though those are pretty much ignored in recent times; and there were the Rights enshrined in The Constitution but those are also under intense attack: for example, Free Speech is essential gone. Instead there are new commandments coming from somewhere but certainly not God: now we must pledge to diversity & inclusion, and if we don’t, there goes your professional license. Where did the idea of “diversity” even come from? When did the purview of licensing organizations expand to include religious dogma? Professionals can be censored from practice unless they swear to abide by a subjective standard interpreted by someone else? They also get to tell you how to address them. Notice how what that someone else thinks is abusive behavior has precedence; they get to determine what you say and do, a reversal of responsibility & control, from you to them. You would think lawyers would be the ones confronting this attack on liberty but they were the first to demand allegiance to diversity as part of their Ethics requirements. Instead of God telling us how we should act, a shadowy force in the ethics departments of professional organizations is.