Posted on 03/19/2019 6:53:34 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Google employees on an internal company listserv complained when a Christian video on marriage appeared as an advertisement on several YouTube channels. A Google vice president agreed that it was "offensive" and had the video taken down.
What was so "offensive" about it?
Christian radio host Michael L. Brown argues in the video that gay people are welcome as Christians but that, like every other person, they are called to follow Christian teachings on sex and marriage.
Brown has spoken out in the past against “homo-hatred” and “ugly rhetoric” directed at gay and lesbian people by fringe groups like the Westboro Baptist Church.
In the video, he describes same-sex relationships as “like other sins, but one that Jesus died for.”
The belief that sex is meant to take place in the context of a male-female marriage — as argued by Brown — is central to most major Christian denominations’ marital teachings.
Google HR highlighted in the listserv a “representative” comment from an employee who took offense that Brown’s video had appeared as an advertisement on channels operated by gay and lesbian YouTubers, the documents show.
“I cannot see how this can be allowed when the specific idea of LGBT videos is to allow the creators to feel free to share their content and be comfortable that anti-LGBT advertisers would not be attached to their content,” the employee wrote. “This seems very counter to our mission, specifically around PRIDE 2018 timeframe.”
Google’s vice president for product management and ads, Vishal Sharma, agreed that the video was too offensive to air as an advertisement.
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This is why we have free expression. But when that "freedom" is only available to one side of a question, and "hate" is used as an excuse to silence those who might disagree, everybody loses.
After Coca-cola came along, there were other soda companies, too. Now there are over 1,000 companies profiting from the demand for fizzy drinks.
Google is the Coca-cola of search:
How can it persist as the ONLY one..?
This is weird.
I’m waiting for them to call for the banning of the Bible - they must consider it hateful, as it’s the source of the teaching.
Duck Duck Go
Google is the default search on no device/browser in my house.
Lobbyists and $$$$. Lots of it.
RE: I’m waiting for them to call for the banning of the Bible - they must consider it hateful, as it’s the source of the teaching.
I think they will NOT do that. However, portions of the Bible that mention Homosexual acts negatively will definitely be NOT welcome.
Fight like a Democrat. Vishal Sharma should be destroyed. Investigate, expose, look at his family and financial links, make his life miserable.
Democrats are evil scum.
Easy Fix, Re-Edit the Video citing scripture from the Quran:
Allah says:
Do not go near adultery, surely it is an indecency, and an evil way [of fulfilling sexual urge]. (17:32)
Fornication and adultery have severely been condemned in the saying of the Prophet and the Imams. In Islam, pre-marital sex is considered an immoral act against the rights of Allah and one’s own sexual organs.
Pre-marital sex is a sin punishable by the Islamic court. If an unmarried man and an unmarried woman are found guilty of fornication in an Islamic court, their punishment will be as the following:
The woman and the man who fornicate scourge each of them a hundred whips; and in the matter of God s religion, let no tenderness for them seize you if you believe in God and the Last Day; and let a party of the believers witness their punishment. (24:2)
If the unmarried man or woman commit fornication more than once, then they will be punished three times by hundred wipes, and if they are proven guilty for the fourth time, then they will be put to death.6 (As for adultery, its punishment is even more severe because married persons have no excuse, whatsoever, to commit adultery. The shari’ah says that married persons guilty of adultery should be stoned to death.)
In the Islamic legal system, homosexuality is a punishable crime against the laws of God. In the case of homosexuality between two males, the active partner is to be lashed a hundred times if he is unmarried and killed if he is married; whereas the passive partner is to be killed regardless of his marital status.
In the case of two females (i.e., lesbianism), the sinners are to be lashed a hundred times if they are unmarried and stoned to death if they are married.
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