An Iowa-based church insurer has been accused by two equal housing advocacy groups of religious discrimination in selling housing insurance.
Their complaint against GuideOne insurance in Des Moines was filed with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development by The National Fair Housing Alliance in Washington and the Ohio-based Fair Housing Advocates Association.
The groups said they sent testers posing as insurance customers who obtained evidence showing that GuideOne, through its FaithGuard endorsement, “provides and markets its products and services to homeowners on the basis of their religion and religious status.”
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