YouTube censors pastor for opposing Canada’s ‘conversion therapy’ bill

Feb 2, 2022 by Jill

by Kurt Mahlburg, MercatorNet:

Having gained the upper hand over the last five years, the aim of wokeness is to stifle every sniff of opposition.

Canada’s infamous Bill C-4 outlawing “conversion therapy” has taken out its first casualty: a Californian pastor censored on YouTube for preaching that “God made man male and female”.

John MacArthur, pastor of Grace Community Church on the outskirts of Los Angeles, has been a preacher for over 50 years. By size, his congregation is technically a megachurch, but not the happy-clappy kind. A bestselling author whose sermons are broadcast on hundreds of US radio stations, MacArthur is known for his suits and ties, exegetical Bible teaching, and stiff-upper-lip orthodoxy.

When Canada passed its most recent criminal code amendment in late 2021, MacArthur joined a protest of 4,000 North American preachers affirming traditional Christian sexual ethics from the pulpit. His sermon was quickly labelled “hate speech” by YouTube and removed. During that sermon, MacArthur said:

“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.

“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.”

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