The highly popular, but largely dormant Pyromaniacs blog was a Christian theology blog that offered critical commentary on modern religious practices and biblical interpretations. It was hosted by Blogger, a blog-publishing service owned by Google. The main contributors to the blog were Phil Johnson of Grace Community Church and executive director of John MacArthur’s Grace to You ministry, Dan Phillips, and Frank Turk, each of whom brought a distinct perspective to evangelical Christian thought.

For the last several years, the blog has only very occasionally had the cobwebs swept off of it to publish a commentary on one of the day’s hot topics. And it was just recently that Dan Philips, pastor of Copperfield Bible Church, decided to publish a letter that he shared with his congregation several years to the blog which was written to help parents navigate Pride Month with their children.

The article, which was simply titled Pastoral Letter on Pride Month, has been removed from its original link and according to Philips, was also removed from the backend of the site—deleted completely.

Below is a copy of the notice that Philips received, which he posted on Twitter, noting that his post was removed because it violated Google’s “hate speech” policy.

We looked up Google Blogger’s “hate speech” policy, and we found the following:

Do not engage in hate speech. Hate speech is content that promotes or condones violence against or has the primary purpose of inciting hatred against an individual or group on the basis of their race or ethnic origin, religion, disability, age, nationality, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, or any other characteristic that is associated with systemic discrimination or marginalization.

According to Philips, despite the fact that his article clearly exhorted Christians not to hate homosexuals, but rather love them but tell them the truth, his article was still removed.

The article, which is now posted in its entirety at Romans45.org, literally contains the following words:

So we don’t hate people who want bad things. We would be exactly the same if it weren’t for Jesus. We love people who don’t know Jesus, we pray for them, we want to help them, we want to tell them about Jesus. And when they believe, we accept them and love them and help them to learn to walk with Jesus, just like we’re doing.

The letter, which I highly recommend to all Christian parents seeking advice on how to navigate and speak to their children about Pride Month from a biblical perspective, can now be found at this link. The fact that Google would sensor such solid, loving yet truthful exhortation to both Christians and to people caught up in sin, should scare us all. That corporations have so much power over individual freedoms and public speech demonstrates just how much we are slaves to the world’s corporatocracy.