A woman in Grand Rapids, Mich., surely did not want to violate the civil rights of anyone when she posted an advertisement on a bulletin board at her church seeking a Christian roommate.
But she faces a civil rights charge because she expressed a supposedly “illegal preference for a Christian roommate, thus excluding people of other faiths,” the complaint by the so-called Fair Housing Center of West Michigan stated.
“It’s a violation to make, print or publish a discriminatory statement,” the executive director of the Fair Housing Center told Fox News. “There are no exemptions to that.”
That’s bizarre. What happened to freedom of association? Should the woman be required, for instance, to share her personal living space with someone who practices witchcraft?
An attorney for the Alliance Defense Fund, which is defending the woman at no charge, described the civil rights charge against her as “outrageous.”