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Apple Removes Gay Cure App From App Store
recoiledsnake writes "Apple has removed the Gay Cure app after the pressure on Apple to remove the app started to snowball, culminating in an online petition initiated by Change.org which collected over 140,000 online signatures from people who wanted the app removed. Searching for the app now yields zero search results 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' Gay Cure isn't the first app Apple has removed for touting an anti-homosexual philosophy. Apple back in November removed an app called the Manhattan Declaration which advocated the dignity of marriage as the union of one man and one woman." I don't think Apple should have banned it: they should have just packaged it with an app to cure bigotry.
I knew a guy once who claimed to be one of those "reformed" gay men. Still acted effeminate, still loved musicals, still had a house with incredible interior design. But I guess because he managed to catch himself every time he looked at another dude's ass and found a wife willing to believe that he loved vagina, he magically had become a heterosexual. But he still went "antiquing," so apparently Jesus had only led him *part* of the way to heterosexuality. Yay!
I suppose I could convince myself I loved dick if I was motivated and deluded enough. But deluding myself still wouldn't make another man's hairy ass any more attractive. And it sure as shit wouldn't make me want to go antiquing. It would just make me a heterosexual in denial.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
Seriously.
"Gay Cure"? WTF? "Gay Cure"? WTF? "GAY CURE"? WTF?
"[...]no longer in the @AppStore. Incredibly disappointing.[...]"
WTF??????
I am an atheist. But because of this I'll turn ANTI-THEIST now...
here i go...
CHRISTIANITY IS SUPERIOR TO ALL OTHER RELIGIONS
EVOLUTION IS A DEGENERATE SCIENCE
SIEG HEIL JESUS
there you go, christians... curing gays was worth it, right?
I love everything about the story and I hope stuff like this keeps happening, again and again. It was stupid for Apple to be selling the app, and stupid for them to stop. Every step along the process was lose/lose for Apple except for all the money they may have made through the sales (which to them is the whole point, of course, but I don't know whether or not this was a for-pay app).
The very idea of third-party app censorship stinks to high heaven and I hope everyone involved in it (especially the ones like Apple with tons of crazy arbitrary senseless rules about what is allowed) is repeatedly exposed to embarrassment and anger from both sides of every "controversial" issue. I hope gays hate Apple for this, I hope rights-advocates hate Apple for this, I hope homophobes hate Apple for this, and I hope developers hate Apple for this. Fuck you, Apple. The Walled Garden Sucks. It's not just that the Apple App Store happens to suck, it's that it is a bad idea right down to its very core. Having a third party in charge of what people see, is fucking lame, un-American, and a shitload of other adjectives that I'll leave out since I my sentences already have enough of a run-on problem.
The modus operandi of the nut-jobs is becoming very effective. They create a "gay cure" app. Thousands of sane people get indignant, sign petitions, etc. and get it taken down. So now a portion of indignation, enthusiasm to participate in causes, proclivity to donate to causes - such as say 'stop bullying of gay school kids' - has been used up in protesting an app. The app is much cheaper to produce than say, an anti-gay-marriage ballot initiative.
By the time the nut-jobs get around to ballot initiatives on gay marriage (yes, I know California's already had one), on teaching creationism in public schools, abolishing minimum wage, etc., the sane people are too jaded from fighting all these little battles, or they're too preoccupied with defending attacks on one thing to pay attention to something else, such as say, net neutrality.