Apple removes "Gay Cure" app from iTunes

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

http://www.edibleapple.com/apple-removes-gay-cure-app-from-itunes

Apple’s policing of the iTunes App Store has drawn considerable amount of criticism ever since the store first launched back in July of 2008. At times Apple’s app rejections have been downright nonsensical (i.e when Tweetie was temporarily rejected due to an offensive trending topic on Twitter) while some of the apps that sneak their way into the app store are equally suspect on both moral and copyright grounds.

One of the more recent apps to bring Apple’s handling of its app store to the forefront was an app called "Gay Cure". The app was submitted by Orlando based Christian group called Exodus International, and as the name implies, the app was dedicated to "helping homosexual strugglers". Indeed, a quick perusal of Exodus International’s website shows an organization seemingly obsessed with "curing" homosexual behavior. Their "Exodus Students" section, for example, describes itself as "a community of people who are choosing to honor God with their sexuality…" (...)

Now comes word that Apple did, in fact, remove the app late on Tuesday evening. Searching for the app now yields zero search result and Exodus International President Alan Chambers tweeted the following on Tuesday night.

It’s official, the @ExodusInl App is no longer in the @AppStore. Incredibly disappointing. Watch out, it could happen to you. #freedom

(more at link)

Their ominous warning of the impending Anti-Christian Black Helicopters makes it all the sweeter.

[Snoutport]

1. at least in the US store....

but still good news.

[siligut]

2. Alan Chambers is deluded

I would feel sorry for these idiots if they weren't causing so much damage to the rest of us.

[Ignis]

3. K&R. Finally!

They could have handled this much more swiftly. They've certainly pulled less-disgusting apps faster than this in the past.

[siligut]

4. You only have to know a few women who have married gay men to know how cruel this notion is

First to the boys raised to believe they are wrong for such a basic human need and then to the women whom they marry, trying to have a "normal" life.

[The Doctor.]

5. These people are just ignorant, insane morons.

They just need to grow the fuck up.

[bengalherder]

6. Maybe they read this:

http://www.truthwinsout.org/scandals-defections/

* John Paulk was the chairman of Exodus International and founded Focus on the Family’ Love Won Out conference. He had appeared on 60 Minutes, Oprah, Good Morning America and landed on the cover of Newsweek during a high profile 1998 ex-gay ad campaign. On Sept. 19, 2000 activist Wayne Besen photographed Paulk in Mr. P’ — Washington, DC gay bar. The incident cost him his job as Exodus’ chairman and Focus on the Family greatly diminished his role.