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Hulen Street Church serves its local community in Fort Worth, Texas.
Recognizing that a significant and growing number of people in their
local area work on Sunday, like first responders, the church recently
began hosting a new Thursday night service.

To promote the new service, the church created a 22-second video ad
with Pastor Wes Hamilton extending a short invitation to attend the
new service.

Facebook, Instagram and Google all approved the ad to run on their
platforms.

But Hulu's customer service rejected it. The company said it
violated policies against "religious indoctrination"
because it invited viewers to attend Thursday services. But the words
"religious indoctrination" appear nowhere in Hulu's
published ad policy.

First Liberty sent a demand letter to Hulu yesterday, urging the
platform to clarify its policy toward religious advertising.

"Treating a simple advertisement about church service times as
indoctrination is absurd," said First Liberty attorney Jeremy
Dys. "Hulu's rejection of this simple, 22-second ad
demonstrates exactly why clear, fair standards are needed throughout
Big Tech. If a church cannot even advertise where and when it will
meet, what else is Big Tech willing to censor?"

Big Tech companies are not applying their own rules and guidelines
evenly. They're increasingly abusing vague policies to silence
free speech and religious content. And this very issue has made its
way to the U.S. Supreme Court.

This week, the Supreme Court heard arguments involving laws in Texas
and Florida that require social media companies to announce their
standards and apply them fairly.

Companies shouldn't discriminate on the basis of religion.
It's time for us to stand together to tell companies like Hulu
understand that we will not tolerate this type of discrimination. Not
now; not ever.

And when you support First Libery, you empower our attorneys to fight
and win for houses of worship like Hulen Street Church.

Together, we can end this type of discrimination. Please give to First
Liberty today.



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