Is censorship escalating against evangelicals? Three biblical responses
The Daily Article
The Denison Forum
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🗓️ 3 February 2021
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
Twitter and Facebook recently blocked posts in ways that may portend growing censorship of biblical morality. Today's podcast tells this story, then we focus on three biblical ways to respond with truth and grace.
The Daily Article is written by Dr. Jim Denison with the Denison Forum. This podcast is narrated by Chris Nichter.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Daily Article podcast, published by the Denison Forum for Culture-Changing Christians. |
| 0:07.8 | To receive the Daily article directly to your email inbox each weekday morning, visit thedailyarticle.com. |
| 0:14.7 | Now here's today's news, discerned differently. |
| 0:19.4 | The Daily Citizen is a publication of Focus on the Family. |
| 0:23.6 | On January 19th, it tweeted that President Biden's nominee for Assistant Secretary of Health, |
| 0:29.6 | Rachel Levine, is a transgender woman, that is, a man who believes he is a woman. |
| 0:36.6 | The story included a link to an article about the nomination. |
| 0:40.5 | As a result, Twitter locked the magazine out of its account, |
| 0:44.9 | informing the publication that its tweet violated Twitter's user rules |
| 0:49.5 | forbidding hateful conduct and violence. |
| 0:52.4 | The magazine insisted that it never promoted violence. |
| 0:56.7 | As a Christian organization, we would never do so. We simply explained to our readers the appointment |
| 1:03.0 | and defined what transgender women are, those born male who believe they are a woman, |
| 1:09.6 | regardless of whether they have had opposite-sex |
| 1:12.2 | hormones or surgeries. |
| 1:14.4 | We believe Twitter's blocking of this tweet and lockdown of our account discriminates |
| 1:19.1 | against focus on the families, the daily citizen, on the basis of our religious affiliation. |
| 1:25.5 | The social media platform rejected the appeal and said its ban |
| 1:29.6 | would not be overturned. In related news, a New Testament professor at Houston Baptist University |
| 1:38.6 | was suspended from Facebook for voicing disagreement with President Biden's executive order, allowing trans-identifying |
| 1:46.7 | individuals to serve in the U.S. military. |
| 1:49.8 | Robert Gagnon, Ph.D., Princeton Theological Seminary, is a well-known scholar on the subject of |
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