Apple in the dock over gay “cure” app
An app which offers guidance to homosexuals on how to convert from homosexuality to heterosexuality has come under fire from gay rights campaigners.
The “gay cure” app has been designed by a religious organisation called Exodus International who claims that a combination of “prayer” and “conversion therapy” can turn gay people straight.
Advice includes abstinence, lessening temptations and enhancing homosexuals sense of masculine or feminine identity.
The claims have sparked outrage though with some 37,000 people petitioning Apple to drop the contentious software from its store.
Protestors state that the Christian group are using “scare tactics, misinformation, stereotypes and distortions” and that the form of “therapy” employed by the software has been debunked by “every major professional medical organisation.”
Previously Apple has banned an app which allowed people to simulate shoe throwing at former US President George W. Bush and another religious themed time waster which allowed people to copy and paste their own mugs over the forms of various world deities.