Xian Uses Religious Experience to Justify Discrimination

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Note that she was "too deep in prayer" to even talk with her prospective tenants...

http://www.ljworld.com/section/citynews/storypr/204460

They say it was racial discrimination. She says it was the Lord telling her not to rent to fornicators.

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On Morales' first visit in February 2002 to Villa 26 Townhomes , 2109 W. 26th St., the management was friendly and engaging, Morales said. But she alleges the picture changed when she showed up again with Jackson.

Jackson testified that Sander was distant and cold to him throughout the visit.

"It was the way I was treated as a whole during the whole time we were there," Jackson said. "She didn't acknowledge that I was there."

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But Bruce Plenk, a private attorney hired by the city, pointed out that Sander allowed other unmarried white couples to stay in the apartments, and one unmarried white couple was allowed to rent after Morales and Jackson were turned down.

Sander said the reason she didn't speak to Jackson during the visit was that she was having a religious experience.

"I was so much in prayer I just couldn't answer them," she said.

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1. Complete bullshit

both her reason for not renting, and her excuse for not talking to them.

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2. This bit just makes me laugh

She said that at the time she was so concerned about renting to unmarried couples that she would drive around the complex again and again, pretending it was the biblical city of Jericho -- and believing that the walls might figuratively come tumbling down.

"I earnestly believed that God would help me and just send me the people that he wanted," she said.