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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.
Actually the post isn't offensive at all. You simpleminded over-sensitivity is offensive!
The app should have stayed up because it did not denigrate or attack anyone, it just spoke to a point of view. Those too sensitive to allow an opposing viewpoint need to grow up.
The first church I went to was a Presbyterian church. A very conservative, Calvinist one. Their position was very similar, but they added that all sex outside of God's plan is an abomination to Him. The practical difference is that it's natural, but sinful, to have sex with your girlfriend. If you turn to your own gender, children, animals, etc. that is "more of an abomination" in a practical sense. What it means is that you are truly starting to stray into the darkness; the orientation itself is a symptom of one turning toward Satan in a meaningful way.
Liberals respond to this typically with the assertion that for some people it's inborn and "why would God knowingly create a defective person." To that we conservative Protestants respond that God didn't make them be born a homosexual, but rather the sin nature they inherited afflicted them at birth. In others, it gives them a wicked temper or other burdens with which they must contend.
What liberals haven't faced up to is that homosexuality exists in at least three different forms: congenital predisposition (the theoretical biologically-based minority), childhood trauma (homosexual pedophilia, primarily) and freely chosen deviancy. When you see two otherwise straight women have sex at a college party, that is a perfect example of the third category. It is also the sort of behavior which is unequivocally condemned by Christian churches because it has no mitigating circumstances that warrant a merciful, light-handed approach to correcting.
Then they came for me. And there was no one left to speak out for me.
All of us who avoided walled gardens and have been speaking out against them for ages will still be here to speak out for you.