Daily Caller "Google banned a video explaining Christian teaching on same-sex marriage from advertising on YouTube after backlash from upset employees, according to internal Google communications reviewed by The Daily Caller News Foundation.
"The video was flagged in June 2018 in an internal listserv, “Yes at Google,” which is run by Google’s human resources department, according to those communications and other internal documents, which a source shared with TheDCNF on the condition of anonymity.
"The listserv has more than 30,000 members and is devoted to policing “microaggressions” and “micro-corrections” within the company, according to its official internal description.
"The internal backlash to the video grew large enough to merit a response from a Google vice president, who said the video would no longer be eligible to run as an advertisement, the human resources team announced to the listserv. (RELATED: ‘Disrespectful’: Google Employees Melt Down Over The Word ‘Family’) . . .
. . . "The episode is indicative of the tension between Google’s liberal office culture and its public commitment to free expression.
"Other internal documents previously obtained by The DCNF showed Google employees melted down after an executive used the word “family” in a weekly, company-wide presentation.
"Many Google employees became angry that the term was used while discussing a product aimed at children because it implied that families have children, those documents showed." . . .
Hat tip to Rick Moran: Christian video on marriage removed from YouTube when Google employees object. . . Nobody likes to be told they're a "sinner," but viewing a message that gently reminds gay people of Christian teaching on homosexuality and marriage is hardly "offensive" using any objective criteria. No one at Google is worried about "offending" Christians who might be as uncomfortable viewing pro-gay content as gays are at viewing what they see as anti-gay content. "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." . . .
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