Pastor Fights to Keep Realtor License After Posting Bible Verse

The Daily Signal ^ | December 10, 2024 | Christina Lewis and Audrey Streb

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

A Virginia real estate broker faces the prospect of losing his license and paying a hefty fine because of a Facebook post about a Bible verse about homosexuality.

On Feb. 13, 2015, Staunton-based broker Wilson Fauber reposted the Rev. Franklin Graham’s post citing a verse in the Bible and added commentary from his own perspective as a pastor.

After 44 years in the business with a clear record, Fauber learned that the National Association of Realtors received an ethics complaint about him earlier this year.

The “real basis of that complaint was from 2015, when I posted Leviticus 18:22,” he told The Daily Signal.

“You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination,” reads Leviticus 18:22, as translated by the English Standard Version of the Bible.

The Virginia Association of Realtors conducted a hearing Wednesday regarding the complaint against Fauber. If found guilty of an ethics violation, he could be fined $5,000 to $15,000 and effectively lose his career as a broker. The National Association of Realtors also can appeal to the government, making the case that Fauber is unworthy of his real estate license.

A ruling was expected as early as this week.

“A lot is at stake,” Fauber told The Daily Signal. “They have the option to remove me from membership in the National Association of Realtors, the Virginia Association of Realtors, and our local association of realtors.”

Fauber also noted that the National Association of Realtors could remove him from the Multiple Listing Service, or MLS, a communication and listing tool for those in the real estate industry. Removal from the MLS “puts you out of business,” he said.

[Red Badger]

This CANCEL CRAP HAS GOT TO STOP!........................

[stars & stripes forever]

LGBTQ advocates must have given up on Bakery owners and are now going for Realtors.

[drwoof]

They will go after anyone who does not worship them, given the opportunity. They would kill them, given the chance. The consequences of outright murder are too great, though, so they resort to destroying the life they cannot take.

[No name given]

My thoughts exactly.

[No name given]

They don’t call them the alphabet mafia for nothing.

[Red Badger]

If they won’t stop it then they will be targeted by the same process.

Live by CANCEL CULTURE, die by CANCEL CULTURE....................

[packagingguy]

This is one reason why we shouldn’t have licenses for everything.

For some professions yes, but not for every profession.

[Ronald77]

In the United States we have free speech, as long as it supports the progressive agenda. If it does not you go to jail.

[drwoof]

Indeed. A term that we should use wherever appropriate, without apology.

[ConservativeMind]

This is religious discrimination, and since the National Association of Realtors is not either the employer, nor its own religious institution, this should be a win i court, I would believe.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

Governor Youngkin should cancel the charter for Virginia Assoc. of Realtors.

[Persevero]

It’s a license so freedom of religion should apply.

[BobL]

“Governor Youngkin should cancel the charter for Virginia Assoc. of Realtors.”

He’s a very smart political player - he just might latch on to this issue.

[SaveFerris]

[The “real basis of that complaint was from 2015, when I posted Leviticus 18:22,” he told The Daily Signal.

“You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination,” reads Leviticus 18:22, as translated by the English Standard Version of the Bible.]

Which is why I post - either resist or submit - they're not going to stop - I choose to not submit to their "cause"

We're in the Last Days before the 7-year Tribulation.

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Genesis 19:27-28 KJV

27 And Abraham gat up early in the morning to the place where he stood before the Lord:

28 And he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace.

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis+19%3A27-28&version=KJV



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[SaveFerris]

You are 100% correct - unfortunately

[SaveFerris]

[They will go after anyone who does not worship them, given the opportunity.]

Meanwhile, elsewhere in the world...in July of 2024...

From The Belfast, Ireland Pride Festival, Saturday, 27 July 2024:

[mikey_hates_everything]

“Realtors”…that elitist club of real estate agents that uses HOAs to harass neighbors over appearances so a seller can increase the asking price and the agent’s commission.

[eyeamok]

These people need to STOP THE STUPID and smarten up a little, DON”T Post passages from the bible about sodomites, Post passages from the Koran and the Hadith. MAKE THEM EAT CROW.

[fwdude]

They don’t call them the alphabet mafia for nothing.

Gaystapo.