A California congressman has lost the endorsement of a 1.3 million-member realtors group after saying it was acceptable for people to refuse to sell their homes to gay men and lesbians if “they don’t agree with their lifestyle.” Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-California, made the controversial comments May 16, during a meeting with a delegation from the National Association of Realtors, the Orange County Register first reported Thursday. “Every homeowner should be able to make a decision not to sell their home to someone [if] they don’t agree with their lifestyle,” Rohrabacher said, according to Wayne Woodyard, a former president of the Orange County Association of Realtors. Woodyard said the meeting included proposing a change to the Fair Housing Act to extend anti-discrimination protections to LGBT groups. “I told the congressman that we need to add federal protections for the LGBTQ community as the final piece of the Fair Housing Act, and the minute I stopped speaking, he said, ‘I just will not support that,’” Woodyard told CNN. Rohrabacher himself confirmed to the Register that he had made those statements. “We’ve drawn a line on racism, but I don’t think we should extend that line,” Rohrabacher told the newspaper.

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