Apple pulls app that claimed to 'cure' homosexuality. But don't worry, you can get it on Android.

[onehandle]

An app that purported to free its users from the “bondage of homosexuality” has disappeared from the App Store.

Early Thursday, the group All Out (which advocates for the rights of gay, bisexual, and transgender people) began spreading the word about an app called Setting Captives Free. All Out objected to the app’s presence in the Apple and Google Play app stores.

The group launched a petition to get the app removed, which had more than 30,000 signatures at publication time. By Thursday afternoon, the app no longer loaded successfully in the iTunes Store, instead generating only an error indicating that it was not available.

The free app had promised that it could help its users find “freedom from habitual sins,” and that it would “help people just like you escape impurity, over-eating, substance abuse, gambling, smoking, and more.” The app pulled in its course material from the Setting Captives Free website.

http://www.macworld.com/article/2040348/apple-pulls-app-that-claimed-to-cure-homosexuality.html

[KamaAina]

1. Religious insanity? There's an app for that

How is an app supposed to do those things, anyway? Laying on of keys?

[LuvNewcastle]

2. Next there will be an app for burning crosses.

[dlwickham]

3. very cool

I signed that petition

[johnnypneumatic]

4. I was in gay bondage once

but I couldn't reach my phone
even if I could, I don't see how an app could unlock the handcuffs