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.

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