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.
Fauber served clients and was active in ministry for 44 years until the National Association of Realtors informed him in early 2024 that someone had filed an ethics complaint against him for his Facebook post, citing that it was discriminatory against the LGBT community.
“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 …
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