Dear John,

On this Thanksgiving, as I reflect on my twenty years at the helm of Minnesota Family Council, I’m so grateful to God for His many blessings to this ministry over the years. But there’s one defining blessing that stands out among them, that I’d like to share with you.

On an otherwise ordinary day early in my tenure as CEO of Minnesota Family Council, I received a message from our attorney that left me stunned.

I promptly called the chairman of our board to inform him of what I’d heard. Getting his voicemail, I left the following message:

“You know the expression, ‘If you were accused of being a Christian, would there be enough evidence to convict you?’ Well, I was just told by our attorney that there isn’t enough evidence to convict MFC.”

Almost immediately, the board chair called me back, exclaiming,

“You’ve got my attention!”

I proceeded to remind him that I was taking steps at that time to implement a code of conduct for MFC employees, for hiring and to hold employees accountable for behaviors inconsistent with MFC’s beliefs and values. Then, as now, the increasing hostility of our culture toward any ministry that tries to remain faithful to Christ in the public square often manifests by challenging a ministry’s ability to hire only employees who share its beliefs and values, and to hold employees accountable to follow those beliefs and values.

Thinking it thus prudent to take steps to protect the integrity of this ministry, I had sent a draft

Moral Behavior Policy

to our attorney for review prior to implementing it.

 On that memorable day, the attorney called me to discuss the draft policy. Paraphrasing, he told me that we could implement the policy, but warned me that we could be sued by an employee for discrimination and we’d probably lose!

He went on to explain that a “religious organization” would be exempt from such discrimination claims. However, he had searched our corporate documents and public facing information on our website and did not find sufficient identification of MFC as a religious entity for us to qualify as such. He concluded that a court would likely determine that MFC was not a “religious organization” and rule against us in an employee discrimination complaint.

You can imagine my shock! It felt like I’d been gut-punched!

Please click here to read the rest of the story - and join with me in thanking God for how it turned out!

Read the Rest of the Story

John Helmberger, CEO

Minnesota Family Council

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