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    SunTrust Reverses Decision On Conservative Benham Brothers
    5:11 PM 05/16/2014


    After an uproar from conservative customers, SunTrust Banks announced Friday afternoon that the decision to end its relationship with real estate entrepreneurs David and Jason Benham had been reversed.

    Earlier Friday, The Daily Caller reported that SunTrust Banks had pulled all of its listed properties with the Benham brothers’ bank-owned property business.

    The move came just a week after HGTV announced it was canceling a planned home renovation show hosted by the Benhams because of their conservative views on abortion and gay marriage.

    By Friday afternoon, SunTrust released a statement saying the decision had been reversed. The bank didn’t go into detail about why they originally cut ties with the Benham brothers, though SunTrust said the decision was made by a third party vendor. TheDC reported earlier Friday that the vendor had told a Benham Brothers franchisee that the bank itself made the decision.

    “We clarified our policies with our vendor and they have reinstated the listings with Benham Real Estate,” SunTrust spokeswoman Beth McKenna said.

    “Mid-2013, we consolidated the management of certain residential assets with a third party vendor, which has the relationship with Benham Real Estate,” McKenna added. “While we do not publicly comment on specific vendor relationships, we don’t make choices on suppliers nor base business decisions on political factors, nor do we direct our third party vendors to do so.”

    Added McKenna: “SunTrust supports the rights of all Americans to fully exercise their freedoms granted under the Constitution, including those with respect to free speech and freedom of religion.”

    After publication of TheDC’s story earlier Friday, conservatives expressed outrage at the bank.
    They "clarified" their policies, right.

    Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2014/05/16/su...#ixzz31vwlcUxC
    "Alexa, slaughter the fatted calf."

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    These brothers haven't been financially ruined yet? What's holding up the judgment? I thought by now that they'd be out on the streets, broken and in despair..just where the pro-gay marriage people want them. Oh yeah, and did you hear that they're also against abortion? Yep, I heard that tonight. Anti-gay marriage and anti-abortion. Could there be anyone else so worthy of punishment?
    May we raise children who love the unloved things - the dandelion, the worm, the spiderlings.
    Children who sense the rose needs the thorn and run into rainswept days the same way they turn towards the sun...
    And when they're grown and someone has to speak for those who have no voice,
    may they draw upon that wilder bond, those days of tending tender things and be the one.

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    • #3
      Originally posted by Michele View Post
      These brothers haven't been financially ruined yet? What's holding up the judgment? I thought by now that they'd be out on the streets, broken and in despair..just where the pro-gay marriage people want them. Oh yeah, and did you hear that they're also against abortion? Yep, I heard that tonight. Anti-gay marriage and anti-abortion. Could there be anyone else so worthy of punishment?
      When was the last time you saw a corner store or gas station with a sign that says "Praise Allah, infidels will burn in Hell!"?
      The year's at the spring
      And day's at the morn;
      Morning's at seven;
      The hill-side's dew-pearled;
      The lark's on the wing;
      The snail's on the thorn:
      God's in his heaven—
      All's right with the world!

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      • #4
        Originally posted by Novaheart View Post
        When was the last time you saw a corner store or gas station with a sign that says "Praise Allah, infidels will burn in Hell!"?
        Did one of the brothers hold that sign?
        May we raise children who love the unloved things - the dandelion, the worm, the spiderlings.
        Children who sense the rose needs the thorn and run into rainswept days the same way they turn towards the sun...
        And when they're grown and someone has to speak for those who have no voice,
        may they draw upon that wilder bond, those days of tending tender things and be the one.

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