Gay Cure? We've Got An App For That.

[praxis1966]

I don't even know what to say about this other than I suppose it's a sign of the times. I'm not sure who in their right mind would actually pay for an iPhone application that was designed to cure people of homosexuality, but one exists anyway. According to my many, many inside sources, Apple supposedly actually screens third party submitted applications for other forms of bigotry (racism, antisemitism, et al), but why not homo/transphobia?

Not that I'm surprised or anything... I suppose the only surprising thing about this story is that Apple actually screens its apps for bigotry at all given the cappie penchant for unscrupulousness.




'Gay cure' Apple iPhone app: more than 80,000 complain

Application for iPhone and iPad that claims to give users 'freedom from homosexuality' under fire from gay rights activists

Apple is under fire from gay rights activists after it approved an iPhone and iPad app targeting "homosexual strugglers".

More than 80,000 people have signed a petition against the so-called "gay cure" app, which Apple deemed to have "no objectionable content".

Exodus International, the pro-Christian group behind the app, promotes the "ex-gay" movement, encouraging people to change their sexuality. The app gives users "freedom from homosexuality through the power of Jesus", according to the group.

Full Text (http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/mar/21/gay-cure-apple-iphone)



EDIT: ^One more reason to stop suckling at the teat of the Microsoft/Apple duopoly and switch to Linux I suppose...

[L.A.P.]

That app is about as useful as a fart app, only a fart app would be more effective in achieving its goal.

[Princess Luna]

Exodus International, the pro-Christian group behind the app, promotes the "ex-gay" movement, encouraging people to change their sexuality. The app gives users "freedom from homosexuality through the power of Jesus", according to the group.
wtf does that mean? i would almost buy the app just so i can see what the hell it does

[Agent Ducky]

wtf does that mean? i would almost buy the app just so i can see what the hell it does

I think that exactly is their selling point. A miniscule number of people would actually take it seriously (religious fundamentalists who are secretly gay and believe that an iPhone app can cure them? What kind of market demographic is that?) They're not depending on those people. The idea is a public reaction. Since it's such a controversial topic, it would attract the public eye. The public (a much larger, bigger market than the ones who take this seriously) would be going "WTF?" and therefore BUY IT to see what the whole idea is here. They want to create curiousity as to how their ridiculous idea would work. So first they create controversy to get people to notice it, and then have the idea be so ridiculous at heart that people can't resist wondering how it works.

That seems like a viable capitalist pig plan, right?

[neosyndic]

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[praxis1966]

That app is about as useful as a fart app, only a fart app would be more effective in achieving its goal.

Right, well apparently there are a ton of fart apps out there. Or at least there used to be. A quick Google search using the terms "iPhone fart app" turned up articles on sites like Boing Boing entitled "31 Fart Apps In 30 Seconds" so I guess it's safe to say that those apps are 30 times more useful than this one lulz... I guess one of them just recently got the boot from the online Apple store, but I dunno about the other 30.:lol:


wtf does that mean? i would almost buy the app just so i can see what the hell it does

My many, many inside sources also tell me that it basically just sends you daily affirmations with Bible quotations and words of wisdom in the form of text messages to help you stay on the straight and narrow (pun intended).


This app is a publicity stunt on the part of the Ex-Gay movement.

I'd go along with that. I don't know how they figured an iPhone app could possibly help someone "reprogram" themselves. Although, it wouldn't be the first time the so-called Christian Right has grossly misunderstood human psychology... So, I guess we'll never know.

As for the rest of your post, that actually gives me hope in a way. If a Mormon can come to the same conclusions about life, the universe, and everything as we have then anybody can...

[Red Future]

Didnt the Vatican introduce a sin/confession app for the iphone too ??.
This one is just plain sad though ..and completely useless