Posted on 09/17/2008 1:34:41 PM PDT by vietvet67
Christian and other religious groups opposed to abortion were allowed to advertise on Google for the first time from today, after the search engine capitulated in the face of a legal challenge.
Google had banned pro-life religious groups from buying adverts against search terms such as “abortion” and “abortion help” but was forced to abandon its policy after it was accused of breaching equalities legislation.
The challenge was brought by the Christian Institute, a cross-denominational pressure group, who said that Google’s change of heart was an acknowledgement of the rights of everybody to hold an opinion on the subject.
Mike Judge from the Christian Institute said: “Google were taking adverts from pro-abortion groups, and our view is that was a free speech issue. What we want to do is set out the acts in a pretty factual and pretty sensible way”.
Related Links Google gives sneak peek at Android phone Google had been taken to court by the Christian Institute earlier in the year, arguing that its policy was in breach of the Equalities Act of 2006. Initially, Google said it would fight in the courts, but changed its mind over the summer. Its new policy applies globally.
Acknowledging that the issue of abortion was “an emotive subject”, Google said that it reconsidered its policy following the Christian Institute’s challenge, and said it would be “creating a level playing field and enabling religious associations to place ads on abortion in a factual way”.
However, it was unclear how Google would define the introduction of factual advertising, in an area where anti-abortion groups have been willing to use graphic images of aborted foetuses in an effort to make their point. The Christian Institute, taking a broader interpretation, said that Google’s new policy also amounted to allowing “campaigning ads”.
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God bless Christian Institute for their work on behalf of the unborn.
The ads shouldn’t be focussed so much on “abortion is wrong” - everyone, and I do mean EVERYONE, understands this.
They should focus on the idea of the forgiveness of a loving God.
The abortion issue is not about whether future abortions are legal or not, it’s about whether those who have already been involved in abortion have to face anything in our society that reminds them of the wrongness of it.
Free speech to a liberal means you have a right to free speech if you spew what they spew.
See how tolerant the liberals at Google are? They have to be forced by the threat of a lawsuit to apply the equality laws to everyone.
Being tolerant of those you like is nothing. Having to be tolerant (not accepting of, but just tolerating) of people opposed to you shows the better picture of who you are.
But we already knew this about the Google guys.
Liberal “tolerance” on parade...
So can pro-life groups by ads on Google too?
Equality?
Follow the money -—— ——— ———
Where’s it coming from?
Soros?
Moveon.org?
That’s how I read it.
I consider Soros and Moveon.org one and the same..
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