YouTube Censors Pastor John MacArthur’s Sermon Over Biblical View of Sexuality
YOU TUBE STRIKES AGAIN! YouTube recently censored a sermon by Pastor John MacArthur of Grace Community Church in Los Angeles, CA, due to alleged “hate speech.”
In the sermon, MacArthur addressed biblically based sexuality in response to Canada’s new legislation, Bill C-4. The bill seeks to effectively ban biblical teachings on sexuality like Genesis’s clear statement that they are two genders, male and female.
According to Liberty Coalition Canada, the bill is vague and could be used for “the criminal prosecution of Christians who would speak biblical truth into the lives of those in bondage to sexual sins like homosexuality and transgenderism.”
“There is no such thing as transgender. You are either XX or XY, that’s it. God made man male and female. That is determined genetically, that is physiology, that is science, that is reality,” MacArthur taught on Jan. 16. “On the one hand, the reality of that lie and deception is so damaging, so destructive, so isolating, so corrupting that it needs to be confronted, but on the other hand, that confrontation can’t exaggerate what already exists, which is a sense of feeling isolated in relationships.”
McArthur continued: “This notion that you are something other than your biology is a cultural construct intended as an assault on God. The only way you can address it, honestly, is to say, ‘God made you and God made you exactly the way He wanted you to be. You are not only fighting God in His physical creation, you are fighting God in His sovereignty. You are fighting God in His spiritual relationship to you. This is a war on God.”
YouTube promptly removed MacArthur’s sermon.
“Our team has reviewed your content, and, unfortunately, we think it violates our hate speech policy,” YouTube said, according to conservative speaker Todd Starnes. “We’ve removed the following content from YouTube: ‘There is no such thing as transgender. You are either XX or XY. That’s it. – Pastor John MacArthur.'”
“In other words, YouTube affirmed the Canadian law by banning any opposition to transgenderism on their platform,” Starnes wrote on his blog. “Americans should be preparing for a time when pastors and religious leaders will face persecution for teaching the Word of God.”
YouTube has previously censored other conservative commentators, including Eric Metaxas.
