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Google for Nonprofits offers free or discounted versions of its apps, increased uploads on YouTube, free licensing for mapping technologies, and more to non-profit organizations. Google grant guidelines have caused a recent brouhaha regarding religious applicants.

Google precludes communities or groups that require "membership and/or provid[e] benefit solely to members;" that have "religious content or proselytizing on their websites as well as organizations that use religion or sexual orientation as factors in hiring or populations served...."

Under the First Amendment's Free Exercise and Establishment clauses, churches that discriminate in hiring or firing for religious reasons are protected as a matter of religious freedom. Google, however, as a private organization, does not have to support discrimination against homosexuals. Google's restrictions should come as no surprise -- all funders have guidelines and priorities -- things they fund and things they don't.