Pastor fighting to keep realtor license after complaints about biblical social media posts

The Christian Post ^ | 12/05/2024 | Ryan Foley

[DFG]

A Virginia realtor is facing the possibility of having his license revoked over social media posts as concerns mount about the status of free speech for those working in real estate and other professions.

Wilson Fauber, a Staunton, Virginia-based realtor with a career spanning four decades, appeared before the Virginia Association of Realtors on Wednesday in a hearing to determine whether he violated the National Association of Realtors’ Standard of Practice 10-5. Adopted in 2020, the standard declares that realtors “must not use harassing speech, hate speech, epithets, or slurs based on race, color, religion, sex disability, familial status, national origin, sexual orientation, or gender identity.”

“This all started, you could say, with a post that Wilson made on social media in 2015,” Fauber's attorney, Michael Sylvester of the Founding Freedoms Law Center at the Virginia Family Foundation, told The Christian Post.

Noting how the post came as the U.S. Supreme Court was considering whether same-sex marriage was a constitutional right in the Obergefell v. Hodges decision, Sylvester stressed that Fauber offered his analysis on the matter in his capacity as a Christian minister. Sylvester explained that Fauber “posted the biblical view on marriage,” sharing thoughts from the Rev. Franklin Graham on the matter. “He never faced any ... blowback or pushback,” Sylvester said.

Fauber’s social media post highlighting the biblical position on marriage came up when he was running for public office eight years later. Asked if he “still stands by his Christian beliefs on this topic,” Sylvester told CP that his client answered in the affirmative: “He loves everyone. He serves everyone. He doesn’t hate anyone, he doesn’t discriminate against anyone, but he stands with the Word of God.”

[Mr. K]

Oooooooohhh I would start a lawsuit right now!!

Just for even threatening it

[SaveFerris]

["but he stands with the Word of God.”]

He has no choice. The Godless Reprobates only want to push the agenda. It's not what man says; it's what God says. BUT the Word of God is going to be hated in the End Times. You can mark that down (no pun intended).

Once again......

WE WILL NOT participate in their delusions. Including this one. They really need to read and BELIEVE the Scriptures.

The Days of Lot are upon the world - just as prophesied

And Sudden Destruction is
prophesied for the Days of Lot

Even thus shall it be
in the Day when the
Son of Man is revealed...



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[cuban leaf]

This will test the first amendment as it relates to how you choose to put bread on the table.

I used to be in real estate and remembered the nix on phrases like “family room” and “homogenous neighborhood”.

[cuban leaf]

Yep. Licenses are given out by the government. Our constitutional rights are protections from the government, specifically. On the other hand, if he’s risking losing his membership as a “Realtor”, that is a private organization. However, their virtually monopolistic position could lump them in with government, in a way.

[cgbg]

The real estate industry is just begging for anti-trust actions of various kinds.

There should be many different organizations offering licensing alternatives for real estate professionals.

[PubliusMM]

So...a rule (illegal?) adopted in 2020, and they are trying to apply it to a posting from 2015?

The stench from this reeks of wokeism and DEI.

[SaveFerris]

The Democratic Party has become
the Party of Godless Reprobate Agendas
with Shameless Promotion / Constant Display

(pro-LGBTQ+)

All according to plan.

All according to Satan's plan.

The abomination of America's White House under the rule of Godless Reprobate Barack Hussein Obama must never be forgotten - this man is a tool of Satan

Manchurian Candidate Barack Hussein Obama is a Godless Reprobate
false prophet doing (his true father's) Satan's work for a long time now

June 26, 2015 was the Rainbow White House

[SaveFerris]

One more - PRAY for this pastor to prevail - for this is how they work against the Word of God and Christians all over the world





Pastor Greg Laurie:

This is really hard to believe.

President Biden issued a proclamation recognizing March 31 as Transgender Day of Visibility.

This is also the date of Easter where we celebrate the fact that Jesus Christ rose from the dead. What is the president thinking?

This is a profound insult to the sincerely held religious beliefs of millions of Americans on our holiest day.

America needs God more then ever and yet this is the stance the White House takes.

It’s time to turn back to God not turn our backs on God.

We need to repent and pray for a spiritual awakening in America. It is our only hope.

https://x.com/greglaurie/status/1774211754371018918

[Impala64ssa]

nix on phrases like “family room” and “homogenous neighborhood”.
In NY the phrase "master bedroom" is off limits. Also phrases such as"walk to temple" to indicate a home in an Orthodox Jewish neighborhood could get a realtor in trouble. This is why most of the time houses that go up for sale in those areas are by word of mouth, or FSBOs

[Danie_2023]

“This is really hard to believe.”

It’s not hard to believe at all. To those of us that have been observing these evil cretins (they’re all the same under the skin) and their godless, anti-Christian deeds, for DECADES, it’s ssdd. It has to be enough, for now, to know that they will indeed pay for their transgressions against God, as they will pay for their deeds against Christians. It’s just not that time... yet.

[HYPOCRACY]

These pigs should not be able to hide behind their crappy little cabal or guild or whatever someone who flogs real estate is called. The ones floating this should be personally sued and made destitute. You should also go to prison for even trying to deny one any one of the Bill of Rights. Then this crap will stop.

[Larry Lucido]

Agreed.

What was worse was someone pulled the switcheroo on his radio stations, and they stole his Jesus fish.

[ansel12]

Realtors and real estate listings are already kept from free speech such as “traditional”, “walking distance to”, “prestigious”.

List of Prohibited Words - HUD Fair Housing Words
https://cms.cws.net/content/semnrealtors.org/files/HUD-Fair%20Housing%20Words%20Combined.pdf

[Flaming Conservative]

Father, in the Name of Jesus, confound the enemy on his behalf. Amen

[Sir Bangaz Cracka]

How long before the government declares possession of a Bible is grounds for imprisonment.

[SaveFerris]

Yeah, I think Greg Laurie was soft-selling it there - oy

[SaveFerris]

[“This all started, you could say, with a post that Wilson made on social media in 2015,” Fauber's attorney, Michael Sylvester of the Founding Freedoms Law Center at the Virginia Family Foundation, told The Christian Post.]

Godless Democrat Barack Hussein Obama turned the White House into a national abomination on June 26, 2015.

This past was probably making his comment because of that. God will bless him for standing strong. Barack Hussein Obama is looking at the Eternal Lake of Fire except he repent.

[fuzzylogic]

I’d argue this has been tested a thousand times and has been protected by S.C.

You can’t have such vague wording and then target the livelihood due to the religious beliefs of people. It’s exactly what the 1A protects for.

[SaveFerris]

[How long before the government declares possession of a Bible is grounds for imprisonment.]

Dave Hunt (RIP) I believe said that Saudi Arabia(? someone correct me please) already bans Bible study in the home. China was really bad and I don’t know if they’re better. A guy I went to college with was there as a missionary and he said the secret police were watching him all of the time. He even told a friend not to come over so often because they were going to report him. He would send us letters from China in the 1990s regarding his mission work in China.