Corporate virtue-signalling on Thorburn and the Voice is a dystopian reality the movies warned us about
by Warren Mundine, Sky News Australia:
High-ranking business executives have taken over our political and moral compass – telling us what we should believe, how we should think and shunning anyone who dares to step out of line.
[…] Corporations are telling us what we should believe and destroying people’s careers and life if they don’t stick to the company line.
In the past couple of weeks, we’ve seen two clear examples of corporates venturing into people’s private lives to control what they believe is the right way to think.
The first is the forced resignation of Andrew Thorburn as CEO of the Essendon Football Club because of his role as a congregant and executive of an Anglican church group, City on a Hill.
Ten years ago, the church’s founding pastor gave a sermon where he suggested that, in the future, people will look back in disgust at practices taking place in abortion clinics in the same way we today look back in disgust at the brutality in concentration camps. (He has since apologised for that analogy.)
He has also given sermons where he argued marriage should be between a man and a woman and that homosexual people should remain celibate (as well as saying that Christians should love all people, including those who act in ways they disagree with).
These are positions of personal morality that many people don’t share, and some people may even find abhorrent.
But they are just that: personal moral positions, based on religious faith.
Essendon has no idea whether Thorburn shares these views.
Even if he does, in his role as a corporate executive over many years he’s never sought to impose or advocate these views in the organisations he’s worked for. Quite the opposite.
When Thorburn was CEO of NAB, the company actively supported same-sex marriage and sponsored LGBT culture and sporting events.
Thorburn lost his job because of his membership of a church.
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