Apple pulls 'gay cure' iPhone app

[FreeState]

Glad to see this.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/mar/23/gay-cure-app-apple-iphone

Apple pulls 'gay cure' iPhone app
Move comes after 146,000 sign petition calling for removal of app that claims to give users 'freedom from homosexuality'

Apple appears to have pulled an iPhone and iPad app promising "freedom from homosexuality through the power of Jesus" after coming under fire from gay rights activists.

More than 146,000 people signed a petition calling on Apple to remove the so-called "gay cure" app backed by Exodus International, a Christian group that describes itself as "the world's largest worldwide ministry to those struggling with unwanted same-sex attraction".

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In the petition letter addressed to Steve Jobs, the Apple chief executive, and posted on the Change.org site last week, objectors said: "Apple doesn't allow racist or anti-Semitic apps in its app store, yet it gives the green light to an app targeting vulnerable LGBT youth with the message that their sexual orientation is a 'sin that will make your heart sick' and a 'counterfeit'.

"This is a double standard that has the potential for devastating consequences. Apple needs to be told, loud and clear, that this is unacceptable."

[poverlay]

1. About time.. i lost a great deal of respect for Apple having approved it in the

first place, let alone having to be pressured to take it down..

[Rex]

2. Oh Apple...so wanting to be a Big Dog that you will show your conumers

your ass and 3 seconds later demand they buy an ipadII. :eyes:

I have a cure for Apple...don't buy their shit = they go out of busniess = cured.

[Smarmie Doofus]

3. Wow. The benevolence of them. nt

[Cronus Protagonist]

4. lol

:D