Posted on 03/05/2025 4:45:58 PM PST by CFW
The National Association of Realtors (NAR) is facing legal pushback for allegedly censoring conservative Christian real estate agents for their personal beliefs.
Critics are slamming NAR’s ethics code, specifically Article 10-5, for serving as a “weaponization tool” that’s been used to further conservative Christian “persecution.” Several of these realtors claiming their rights and businesses have been targeted are now pursuing legal action against the NAR or other parties involved.
Virginia realtor and broker Wilson Fauber, Arizona realtor Chad DeVries and Georgia realtor Julie Mauck, all self-professing conservative Christians, have filed lawsuits or have said they intend to file against the NAR, their local realtor associations or individuals who brought ethics complaints against them under the NAR’s Article 10-5.
Fauber has discussed taking legal action against the NAR and the Virginia Association of Realtors (VAR) after they both ruled that he was guilty of “hate speech” for posting a Bible verse with commentary ten years ago on his personal Facebook page.
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“This originated in 2015 when I reposted and restructured one of Franklin Graham’s posts,” Fauber, 70, told the Daily Caller News Foundation. On Feb. 13, 2015, Fauber reposted Rev. Franklin Graham’s Article that cited the Bible verse Leviticus 18:22, which Fauber said was the “centerpiece of the case.”
The Virginia Realtors conducted a hearing in December, which ruled that Fauber was guilty of violating Article 10-5 of the NAR Ethics code. Fauber and his lawyer Michael Sylvester, with the Founding Freedoms Law Center, filed an appeal which led to a second hearing on Feb. 13. The appeals panel affirmed the original ruling, and their decision is final.
“The sum of this is: a religious realtor is being punished for expressing his faith-based opinions on an important moral issue,” Sylvester told the DCNF.
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The left is trying to silence Christians in every aspect of life. Even for a Bible verse posted ten years ago. And quite often, the Courts are allowing it.
How can they sue now about action taken against them 10 years ago? Isn’t there a statute of limitation?
10 years ago?
How about those verses I memorized as a 1st grader in Sunday School?
Like ‘Jesus loves me’
Action was recently taken against Fauber for a post he made ten years ago. The statute of limitation would start running at the time the association took action against Fauber, not at the time he posted the Bible verse.
From the article:
“Fauber has discussed taking legal action against the NAR and the Virginia Association of Realtors (VAR) after they both ruled that he was guilty of “hate speech” for posting a Bible verse with commentary ten years ago on his personal Facebook page.”
So in addition to violating his First Amendment rights, they are trying to retroactively penalize him for something he did that broke a rule which wouldn't even exist for another 5 years!
I hope he and everyone else going after NAR wins, and in a HUGE way. Speaking as a former realtor, it was already bad enough that you were pretty much forced to join NAR if you wanted to practice real estate, let alone when they decided to become a political activist group and impose their ideology on everyone.
Another reason I'm glad I left!
“Isn’t there a statute of limitations?”
For fag “hate speech”?... oh hell no.
-fJroberts-
Bkmk
Maybe they can start a new realtor’s association. Something like Honest Realtors’ Association. They will have three members.
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