Posted on 12/07/2024 10:35:37 AM PST by 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.”
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The Trump Department of Justice needs to come down hard on this crap.
All regulatory bodies are a form of government.
Of course to the reprobate God’s Truth would be interpreted as *hate speech*.
All they’re trying to do is muzzle opinions they don’t want to hear.
Well, I don’t want to hear their propaganda. But nobody is stopping them from stating it.
You can’t use *master* bathroom or bedroom any more.
It’s *primary* or some such nonsense.
AMEN!
I agree.
💯.
Think of the NAR as a country club and the guy as a Jew wanting to join the 100% gentile country club.
Yes, a big loud amen 🙏🏻.
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
Article 19
1. Everyone shall have the right to hold opinions without interference.
2. Everyone shall have the right to freedom of expression; this right shall include freedom to seek, receive and impart information and ideas of all kinds, regardless of frontiers, either orally, in writing or in print, in the form of art, or through any other media of his choice.
3. The exercise of the rights provided for in paragraph 2 of this article carries with it special duties and responsibilities. It may therefore be subject to certain restrictions, but these shall only be such as are provided by law and are necessary:
(a) For respect of the rights or reputations of others;
(b) For the protection of national security or of public order (ordre public), or of public health or morals.
Article 20
1. Any propaganda for war shall be prohibited by law.
2. Any advocacy of national, racial or religious hatred that constitutes incitement to discrimination, hostility or violence shall be prohibited by law.
https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/Documents/ProfessionalInterest/ccpr.pdf
Article 20, clause 2 is why the UK censors/punishes people.
The US is a state party the Covenant too. What is being done in the UK could happen here.
Lindsey Graham, Nikki Haley could be punished under clause 1.
Dear DOGE,
Please get rid of real estate and hvac licensing, and bank regulations too. We all know how corrupt these groups are.
By the way...FDA approval of vaccines....I rest my case.
M8c drop.
Maybe God wants him to sue them and establish truth..
In the UK, Rightmove and Zoopla are independent listing services.
“State licensing laws enacted in the late 19th century established medical boards to license and discipline physicians within each state and territory. What began as a small annual meeting of board executives has evolved into a vibrant national body with more than 100 employees based in Texas and Washington, D.C. “
“1913....The organization also hosts its first Annual Meeting in conjunction with the American Medical Association (AMA) meeting in Chicago”
“FSMB’s flagship publication, Journal of Medical Regulation has been in continuous print since 1913 through several name and publication schedule changes. In 1921, FSMB changed the title of its publication to Federation Bulletin.”
https://www.fsmb.org/about-fsmb/history/
There are now electronic keypad locks and independent listing services.
Perhaps the NAR needs to be sued out of business.
Tell Elon not to sell the DoJ building.
Ex post facto does not mean ex post facto anymore.
Just look at Trump’s real estate trial in New York.
I stand with the pastor. First Amendment. The government has no right to control his speech...nor does the realtor association. Take them to court and build a church with the proceeds.
“Article 20, clause 2” is violated by every major institution—public, private, profit, non profit, government in the US every day in every way.
They spew anti-white hate.
The left, being at eternal war with the God of Christianity, will NEVER stop trying to carve out ways around freedom of faith and religion so as to eventually be able to put you in jail for saying that homosexuality is a sin. Or any other thing they LOVE to do but is gains Gods word…..abortion, adulatory, pretending to be a woman when you’re a man, stealing, corrupt power…..they want you to go to jail for thinking this let alone speaking it.
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