As a realtor, would you take on gay clients?

[fix]

By saying as a Realtor, you would be supporting their lifestyle, is bogus. You sale houses to single people, do you not?

Some of them have different people over and have sex out of wedlock all the time. So, are you supporting this?

Some have people over and get drunk and then drive, are you supporting that?

It would depend on the circumstance. If someone approached a realtor and said find me a building so I may open an abortion clinic is that not morally different from a single man approaching a realtor and asking to find a house?

We can’t pick and choose things like this if we plan to live in a world of choices. Besides, if I went to a place and anyone I was doing business with asked my sexual preference, I would report them and pursue legal action against them because that is crazy. Right now in America, it is legal to fire someone for being attracted to someone of the same sex, yet we employee prostitutes. We hire pedophiles. Where do we draw a line?

We draw lines all the time. The conflict is about where to draw them.

I think we should stop worrying about homosexuals and start worrying about saving people and making them feel welcomed into the family of God. I don’t care if some man slept with 100’s of people of both sexes, I would take him as a client and I would try to lead him to the Lord and I would offer my hand anyway I could as far as his spirituality.

Great, so would you say to the same sex couple keep doing what you are doing?

If God loved a prostitute and helped her, why can we not help a homosexual? You may be that person that changes her!

Yes, help by all means. How is facilitating their living arrangements helping them do what is right?

 

[blessedtoo]

I found a really good site on homosexuality and the bible. A friend wrote it. I am still reading it, but so far, he has good arguements for why homosexuality may not be as bad as some have us imagine.

and the other
homepage.ntlworld.com/pharseas.world/faithful.html

Based on your recent posts, I would recommend that you start reading “arguments” on this issue that are actually in agreement with what your Church has taught and continues to teach for the last 2000 years. It requires little effort to find dissenting and erroenous views and opinions about sexual morality. As Catholics, we are bound to understand and accept the tenets of our faith and looking for modern “loopholes” is not the way of faith but the way of the world.
stonewallrevisited.com/issues/theo.html#script2
vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/documents/rc_con_cfaith_doc_19861001_homosexual-persons_en.html
:Ministry to Persons with a Homosexual Inclination

 

[Veronica7978]

Where would you suggest they live?
Kathy

 

[Yerusalyim]

In the United States a Realtor would get in trouble with the law if he refused to take a couple based on sexual orientation…which question should never come up in the conversation.

Morally speaking, if Christian business men and women were not allowed to do business with sinners…they’d go broke.

 

[MdntDrmr]

AMEN

 

[rosebudsal]

I have a realtor who is a Christian. I really like him and he does a great job.

I have two friends who are gay and they are married to each other. They asked me the other day if I would recommend my realtor. I said absolutely. Then I thought about it more. Maybe the realtor doesn’t “condone their lifestyle” and may not be the best choice in dealing with them. It’s a sucky situation overall because I think they should be treated fairly.

So far, I told my friends I think the realtor is a Christian and he might have a problem working with them… but I also don’t want to stereotype the Christian either!

What a bummer situation. What do you guys think?

I am thinking (unfortunately) that they need to pick up the lastest copy of the gay newspaper in the area and look for realtors whose ad’s show up in the paper there…

Feels like segregation.

Well, as a Realtor I can say yes. I don’t know if this has been addressed, you cannot discriminate based on Sexual Orientation, Race, Religion, etc, etc… It’s part of the civil rights acts passed by Congress, as well as many states have additional protections granted to different classes of people.

I had a colleague (I wouldn’t really say she was a friend) who was an Evangelical Christian and one day we were out together looking at houses or something and I started up a conversation about what faith she was raised because I don’t think she started out as a Fundamentalist and it turned out she was raised Episcopal and then said some things that shocked me-- the intolerance I heard coming out of the mouth of a Christian just shocked me. II wanted to get out of the car and go home and curl up in a ball-- needless to say, she wouldn’t show a gay couple property either. I digress… sorry.

I live in a city with a very diverse population, we have a fairly tight knit and good-sized gay community, there are a lot of gay Realtors where I live as well, so within the community there is a lot of networking and most know who to call just by word of mouth.

Of course, there are times when you can’t work with someone for whatever reason and you don’t click no matter what the background of the client or the Realtor. Not everyone always gets along, but if there is a perception that the Realtor wouldn’t work with someone of a “protective class” then that Realtor could get into some serious trouble.

I could go on and on… but Realtors cannot discriminate at all.

 

[Joan_M]

Where would you suggest they live?
Kathy

Separately.