Real Estate Board Targets Christian Realtor's Free Speech

Hadassah is a realtor who has been harassed, targeted, and discriminated against by the Virginia Real Estate Board for including a Bible verse – John 3:16 – on her website and phrases like "Jesus Loves You" in her email signatures. Because of that, the Virginia Real Estate Board, a state agency, filed a complaint against Hadassah, accusing her of violating Virginia's fair housing statutes.

To be clear, the Board did not charge her for a refusal to rent to or to represent any person. The complaint absurdly stated that because this realtor used religious speech, they could make someone feel discriminated against. No one should have to justify their free speech or their religion to a regulatory body. To threaten someone's job because they express their faith makes free speech unfree, so we must fight these assaults on religious liberty aggressively whenever they arise.