Google has banned a Christian organization’s advertisements promoting its stance against homosexuality, saying the group promotes "hate."
Stand to Reason, a nonprofit apologetics organization, says its "AdWord" advertisement on Google recently was pulled down. Specific AdWord ads are listed in the right-hand margin of search results on the popular site when key words an advertiser submits match with those put in by a Net user. A company promoting hats, for example, could have their site displayed when a user searches for information about hats.
Melinda Penner, director of operations for Stand to Reason, says the organization placed four ads on Google. Three of the ads remain on the system, but one leading Net surfers to a Q&A about same-sex marriage was taken down after running for two or three weeks.
"Google’s objections had to do with other articles on our website pertaining to homosexuality," Penner told WND. "They claimed that their specialist had deemed us a hate site and that their policies didn’t allow people to have ads that discriminated against certain groups, which include sexual orientation."
Penner said she asked Google what specifically it thought was "hate speech."
"The things they cited were all moral judgments from our religious perspective about homosexuality, that it’s wrong," she explained.
"The irony is that in one of the articles they cited, we have an admonition that one of our moral perspective is that we treat homosexuals respectfully and kindly." [Full Story]
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That’s alarming, considering that Blogger (which I would say contains over half of the blogs in Catholic Blogdom) is owned by Google. I hope we’re not going to start being censored soon.
That’s interesting.
A search for “christianity” brings up, first, “Who Is Allah” and, fourth, “Christianity Run Amok.”
What is Google, a public university or something?