Professional licensing bodies, originally created to ensure competence and protect consumers, are increasingly used to enforce ideological conformity.
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For four years,r expect to face.
Not because he mistreated a client.
Not because he violated real estate law.
Not because of anything he did in his professional work.
Huber, a pastor and licensed Realtor in Montana, was targeted because of a religious sermon, and someone decided that sermon should cost him his livelihood.
The case began in 2021, when Huber’s church ended its partn Brandon Huber lived under a shadow most Americans neveership with a local food bank after discovering LGBTQ-themed materials in children’s lunch bags.
Huber publicly explained the decision, calmly and explicitly, as a matter of biblical conviction. He also made clear that the church would continue feeding children through its own program.
That explanation was labeled “hate speech.”
A third party, not a client and not connected to any real estate transaction, filed a complaint with the Missoula Organization of Realtors, alleging Huber had violated the Realtors’ ethics code.
Local officials agreed, even though the speech occurred entirely outside his work as a Realtor.
The consequences were severe.
Huber was fined $5,000.
He was ordered to complete diversity training, which he declined.
When he did not comply, his access to the MLS database was revoked.
For more than four years, he was effectively locked out of his profession." . . . More...
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