Youtube Shuts Down Popular Channel Because of "Call to Prayer" Video

Updates at bottom of page!

Earlier this week the popular Christian outreach youtube channel PPSIMMONS was "terminated" by youtube. The account, in "good standing", was closed sometime on April 24. When one of the moderators attempted to access the account on that morning he was greeted with:

 "This account has been terminated due to repeated or severe violations of our Community Guidelines and/or claims of copyright infringement."

This was an enigma if there ever was one. "Violations"? The PPSIMMONS account was, according to youtube themselves, in "good standing". In fact, the folks at PPSIMMONS confirmed this "good standing" the week before when they were slapped by youtube for a Trayvon Martin video they posted and were placed on six month "probation". When PPSIMMONS staff appealed the probation youtube responded with an apology and reinstated the account's "good standing". From youtube:

Dear ppsimmons:Thank you for submitting your video appeal to YouTube. After further review, we've determined that your video doesn't violate our Community Guidelines. Your video has been reinstated and your account is in good standing.

This email was sent to the PPSIMMONS ministry Apr 19 - the week before they shut down the channel. Now back to Apr 24. None of the moderators can access the channel. It's dead. No reason was offered by youtube other than that which everyone sees when they try to access it:  "This account has been terminated due to repeated or severe violations of our Community Guidelines and/or claims of copyright infringement."... Nice.

So they went through the appeals process as best they could. It was difficult since their account had been shut down. But they managed to squeak out an appeal to the youtube brass. The response they were given was nothing short of jaw-dropping. They cited the most recent video titled "An EMERGENCY Call To PRAYER! From Carl Gallups and PPSIMMONS Ministry". From youtube:

Penalty 2:
"An EMERGENCY Call To PRAYER! From Carl Gallups and PPSIMMONS Ministry"
formerly at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4A33hWaI60
Removed for violating our Terms of Use on 04/24/2012.
Please see http://www.youtube.com/t/terms and
http://www.youtube.com/t/community_guidelines

Notice it says "Penalty 2". Penalty 1 was a video PPSIMMONS did on abortion a couple of years ago with graphic images and which was taken down. Youtube placed the account in "good standing" following that.

Now remember - the account was placed in good standing following the Trayvon video and for which youtube apologized. They shut down the account while it was in good standing! But that's not the strangest aspect of all this - as strange as that seems.

Penalty 2: "An EMERGENCY Call To PRAYER! From Carl Gallups and PPSIMMONS Ministry". What kind of video was this that so enraged youtube that they saw fit, without any warning at all, to terminate one of the most popular "Christian" channels on youtube? Was it full of naked ladies smoking crack? Was it full of blacks and Jews being slaughtered by a group of drunken white supremacists? Here it is - judge for yourself.

Well there you have it. A simple call to prayer. A call to the church to reach out to God for cleansing and holiness. One might be tempted to suspect that youtube was upset at the mentioning of homosexuality as being a "demonic grip" but the video was speaking directly to people who [claim to] believe the Bible and who [claim to] know Jesus as Lord. This video was not directed at the homosexual community at large. It was a "call to prayer". It attacked no one.

According to youtube's own guidelines [here], they claim: "We encourage free speech and defend everyone's right to express unpopular points of view." Now that they have shut down PPSIMMONS can they honestly make that claim? No - they cannot. The same paragraph in youtube's guidelines says "But we don't permit hate speech (speech which attacks or demeans a group based on race or ethnic origin, religion, disability, gender, age, veteran status, and sexual orientation/gender identity)." Yet the video is speaking to Christians, not homosexuals.

So it seems like youtube is violating it's own guidelines on this one. They are discriminating against a youtube user based on religious beliefs. Not only is that unconstitutional, it goes against their own rules of conduct.

A simple call to prayer. That's all it took to get PPSIMMONS jettisoned from youtube. Yet the ministry lives on. It lives on with this blog and on facebook. It lives on Dailymotion and yes, on countless other youtube channels where the material was "mirrored". PPSIMMONS lives - it will never be silenced.

UPDATE!... a nationally renowned attorney who was a fan of
PPSIMMONS has offered to take PPSIMMONS' case against YouTube
pro-Bono. Those discussions are underway at this writing.

UPDATE!... youtube has reinstated the PPSIMMONS channel!

PPSIMMONS Shut Down by Youtube - Moves Operations to Facebook

"404 not found". That sentence will be in the tab of your browser whenever you try to go to the mega-popular Christian apologetic and American patriotic channel on youtube called "PPSIMMONS". The Reason? -


This account has been terminated due to repeated or severe violations of our Community Guidelines and/or claims of copyright infringement.


Anyone who follows the PPSIMMONS material knows this is simply not true. Moderator and spokesman Mike Shoesmith, author of two of the PPSIMMONS resource books and frequent contributor to the channel content said in an interview that they are trying to reach youtube to have a dialogue on the matter. He also said they are moving operations to their popular facebook page.

"We are shocked by this - truly shocked" Mr. Shoesmith said. "We were placed on notice by youtube and put on six month probation for a Trayvon Martin video but we appealed it and youtube said they were wrong and placed our account back in good standing. A week later they shut us down completely without any warning".

Mr Shoesmith also said they have a popular facebook page and have been slowly moving video content over there. "Our facebook fans are the best and we appreciate their support. We have streaming news coverage and live interaction with members. It's a really great venue" Shoesmith said. "If youtube doesn't honor our requests for reinstatement then facebook will be a solid alternative".

The PPSIMMONS youtube channel has been under constant assault by youtube atheists for its content exposing the fraudulent aspects of the promotion of the theory of evolution - the major supporting theory under-girding the philosophy of modern atheism. With this in mind there is good reason to believe the channel was the victim of a flagging campaign against it. We hope that Google, the owner of youtube.com, will see the reality of this and reinstate the channel.

Pastor Carl Gallups, a major contributor to the channel content and author of "The Magic Man in the Sky" by WND Books, has his own fledgling youtube channel and much of the PPSIMMONS content will be moved there also.

New Book Destroys Atheist Worldview - Gets Major Endorsements

The new book coming out in May published by WND Books called "The Magic Man in the Sky" has already made the top-ten best seller list on Amazon in it's category and its still only available for pre-order.

Now "The Magic Man in the Sky" is getting some big-name endorsements from the academic world. Here's a list of the latest. See if you can recognize some of these names. We'll keep updating this article as the endorsements keep pouring in. Pre-order your copy today!

"Carl Gallups is quickly emerging as one of the most passionate, courageous and stimulating Christian radio talk-show hosts in the country. He is absolutely fearless."

-Jeffrey T. Kuhner, columnist, radio talk-show personality and President of the Edmund Burke Institute for American Renewal

"Few authors articulate the intellectual condition of the church as clearly and effectively as does Carl Gallups in his new book, The Magic Man in the Sky. Compelling story telling, careful construction of thought, and solid theological foundations provide one of the best defenses of a biblical world view currently available. I solidly endorse Gallups' work."

-Mark Foley, Ph.D.

President, University of Mobile

"A long time ago in a galaxy not far away, ignorant folks believed in spontaneous generation, wrongly thinking that life simply jumped out of non-living matter. As Carl Gallups so rightly shows us, those people are still around today. They're called atheists."

-Joe Kovacs, bestselling author of "The Divine Secret" and "Shocked by the Bible"

"Carl Gallups has created a work as unique as the man himself. The danger of studying biblical apologetics is that all too often it creates an environment as sterile and strange as a surgical room. Though vitally needed, these books tend to be complicated, rarely enjoyable, and more than a little intimidating. In The Magic Man in the Sky, Carl Gallups takes the reader into a real world setting to which he can easily relate. The book flows, as does life, through the telling of a story."

- Dr. Dennis Brunet (Ph.D.) Adjunct Professor - New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary

Senior Pastor - Midway Baptist Church Midway, Fl

"In this hour of all-but-universal darkness, a bright ray of hope and confidence shines forth from the truths of this book. In a time when lives are marked by a growing hunger for spiritual realities, a hunger that cannot be satisfied with unanswered questions ignored and evaded by evolutionists, Carl Gallups, with remarkable ability and profound truths from Scripture, reveals the truth that real science and Holy Scripture are inseparably linked."

-Dr. Fred Lackey

Assistant to the President - University of Mobile

Past President - Alabama Baptist Convention

Congratulations for producing such a spiritual book. America needs to go back to its Judeo-Christian foundations that the Left and so called Liberals have been trashing for almost 50 years. God bless you.

Ibn Q. Rassooli - Author of best selling book - LIFTING THE VEIL

From the pre-release sample chapters I read, Carl did a great job debunking evolutionists. Long overdue.

-Jerry McGlothlin - Founder & CEO - Specialguests.com

Yes I have known the God of the Universe personally and experientially but to have his existence confirmed on a cerebral, rational level completes the tapestry painted by Jesus who famously said in Luke 10:27 we are to love the Lord our God with our entire mind... this book will take you there.

-Mike Shoesmith - Author, talk radio personality, Social Media Coordinator for the world famous and viral You Tube channel, PPSIMMONS

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