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YouTube Terminates Greg Locke’s Channel

Three weeks ago, YouTube permanently banned Pastor Greg Locke’s church channel for “severe or repeated violations of our Community Guidelines.” Now, they’ve finished the job and deleted his personal page, taking 800 videos and 105,000 subscribers with it, along with the ability to live stream their church service.

Readers of Protestia will recognize Locke as the foul-mouthed, spouse-abandoning, Tennessee “pastor” who notoriously divorced his wife of two decades and quickly married his secretary, claimed that “Illuminati hand signals are controlling Mitch McConnell,” threatened a Dunkin’ Donuts worker with kicking his teeth down his throat, and recently said that if you deny the existence of tunnels under the White House or Capitol Building that were uncovered by the military and used to house both live and dead children, you’re just as complicit in the abuse as “crack-smoking perverts.” 

Now, he writes on Facebook, the last of the big three social media he has left after being banned from Twitter last year:

Many of you know that YouTube removed our church channel a few weeks ago. It was unfortunate and no real reason was given. Well today YouTube completely removed my personal Pastor Greg Locke page. There was no message, no warning and no explanation. They simply bowed to the wishes of countless haters reporting the page. I decided against doing a video about it for now. Of course it’s a bit discouraging. They literally deleted 800 videos, 105,000 subscribers and banned our church Live stream. Make no mistake…GOD WILL GET GLORY AND DO SOMETHING AMAZING!! I will not be bullied into silence. This is a bump in the road and only further proof of the agenda that we are up against. Remember, TRUTH ALWAYS HAS A PLATFORM. Just gonna sip my coffee, pray for wisdom and simply watch the Lord move on our behalf. God is good! Let’s keep mashing the gas for the Kingdom.

As much as we believe Locke is disqualified from the pastoral ministry, we do not rejoice over this development, as it’s only a matter of time before we’re taken down as well.

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Pastor Greg Locke Permanently Banned from YouTube

A year after Pastor Greg Locke of Global Vision Bible Church in Mount Juliet, TN was permanently banned from Twitter, YouTube has followed suite and likewise permanently banned his church’s channel for “severe or repeated violations of our Community Guidelines.” Neither Locke or YouTube specified what those violations were.

Readers of Protestia will recognize Locke as the foul-mouthed, spouse abandoning, Tennessee “pastor” who notoriously divorced his wife of two decades and quickly married his secretary, claimed that “Mitch McConnell is being controlled by Illuminati hand signals,” threatened a Dunkin’ Donuts worker with kicking his teeth down his throat, and recently said that if you deny the existence of tunnels under the White House or Capitol Building that were uncovered by the military and used to house both live and dead children, you’re just as complicit in the abuse as “crack-smoking perverts.” 

In a post shared on Facebook, the last bastion where Locke is free to speak his mind, he shared the news:

Despite having his church’s channel being banned, Locke’s reported personal channel seems intact, with over 100,000 subscribers, and several similar channels which post his content remain unscathed.

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YouTube Says It Will Start Deleting Videos That Contain ‘Abortion Misinformation’

Megacorp giant YouTube has released a series of statements on social media pledging to begin cracking down on certain abortion videos under the auspices of their “medical misinformation policies.”

“Starting today and ramping up over the next few weeks, we will remove content that provides instructions for unsafe abortion methods or promotes false claims about abortion safety under our medical misinformation policies. Like all of our policies on health/medical topics, we rely on published guidance from health authorities.

We prioritize connecting people to content from authoritative sources on health topics, and we continuously review our policies & products as real world events unfold. We’re also launching an information panel that provides viewers with context and information from local and global health authorities under abortion-related videos and above relevant search results.”

While taking down videos that seek to show how to have illegal or unsafe abortions is a good thing, it’s the “promotes false claims about abortion safety” that is concerning and unnerving. The perspective of the “authoritative sources” will likely be that abortion is a wonderful event with no health risks or adverse mental or emotional impacts, either short-term and long-term. 

Talking about how many women come to regret their abortions as they experience psychological distress and guilt resulting from their acts of baby butchery will more than likely result in the videos being removed or even the whole channel being suspended. We expect to see Twitter follow suit very soon.

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YouTube Labels John MacArthur’s Recent Sermon as ‘Hate Speech’

YouTube, ever the bastion of censorship and dutiful soldier in the war of BigTech against free speech, labeled a recent sermon by Pastor John MacArthur of Grace Community Chuch as ‘hate speech’, on account of him preaching that God made us ‘Male and Female.’

Three weeks ago, Pastor MacArthur requested that pastors around the globe join him in preaching on the biblical understanding of human sexuality, in solidarity with Canadian pastors who were about to be tested after their insane government passed a law with the support of all parties declaring that any efforts to counsel someone or convert someone from homosexual to heterosexual was a crime punishable with up to 5 years in prison.

Without exaggeration, if a congregant tells a pastor they have sinful homosexual thoughts, and seek prayer and counseling for them to have them quelled and brought under the blood of Christ, that is worthy of fines, arrest, and even jail if discovered and brought to the authorities.

At least 4000 pastors pledged to preach in unity that day, with MacArthur contributing content like this:

“Simply stated. 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.’

…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,”

According to Todd Starnes, after uploading a video clip of MacArthur preaching, YouTube took down the video and told him the pastor’s sermon was hate speech, explaining:

“Our team has reviewed your content, and, unfortunately, we think it violates our hate speech policy,” YouTube wrote to me. “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.

And it won’t be very long before the sex and gender revolutionaries target the source of our beliefs – the Holy Bible. I foresee a day in American history where Bibles could be confiscated or rewritten to affirm the LGBTQIA lifestyle.”