I don’t care if you are a married to the Dalai Lama, ran Obama’s campaign website and had Thanksgiving dinner with your cousin Jenna Jameson. I don’t care how fantastically novel your ideas are for campaign finance reform, what the Catholic church needs to do to become popular again, or your explanation on why all condoms should be ribbed.
You never, ever talk religion, politics or sex in the office. Pros are born knowing this. It pains me that I even have to write it down.
Pro Tip:
Why change the topic to sports? Because when passions run high, you need to switch the topic to something that people still have passion about – or the conversation will inevitably veer back to the forbidden. Sports is the world’s #1 choice for a topic that people can show passion about and still hold opposing views even though it is completely meaningless.
Corollary:
A Pro never lets on that they think sports are meaningless, even if they feel that way.