Thread: Apple pulls religious app accused of portraying homosexuality as 'sickness' and a 'sin'

"All we do is teach a very orthodox view of biblical truth," said Ricky Chelette, executive director of Living Hope Ministries.

Apple has removed from its online store a religious app accused of falsely portraying being gay as an "addiction," "sickness," and "sin" after a national gay-rights organization petitioned to have it pulled.

Truth Wins Out, which says it fights "anti-gay religious extremism," launched a petition Thursday urging Apple to remove the app by Living Hope Ministries, a nonprofit that says it serves "those who are seeking sexual and relational wholeness through a more intimate relationship with Jesus Christ."

Living Hope Ministries developed its app three years ago, according to its executive director Ricky Chelette. He said the group is a "discipleship ministry" and "very much like a church."

"We help people understand who they are in Christ," Chelette told NBC News on Sunday. "We only help those individuals who are seeking us."

Truth Wins Out alleged in its petition that the app sought for LGBT youth "to change from gay-to-straight through prayer and therapy."

The petition had 356 supporters. Truth Wins Out said it will seek to have the Living Hope Ministries app removed from other platforms that still host it.

The gay-rights advocacy group thanked Apple and its CEO Tim Cook in a statement Friday.

"We thank Apple for exemplifying corporate responsibility and taking swift action to remove a dangerous app that stigmatizes and demeans LGBT people," said Truth Wins Out Executive Director Wayne Besen. "Ex-gay programs are consumer fraud and cause significant harm to the people they purport to help."

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...ss-sin-n951361

Exemplifying corporate responsibiliy....

356 signatures gets an app removed.

I've met Ricky. Good guy. I remember before Exodus closed its doors, they tried to get an app and were turned down. We live in anti-Christian PC world. We need to get used to it.

Originally Posted by Bookman

I've met Ricky. Good guy. I remember before Exodus closed its doors, they tried to get an app and were turned down. We live in anti-Christian PC world. We need to get used to it.

Used to it? As in compromise, alignment and not be disgusted with it?

Originally Posted by FireBrand

Used to it? As in compromise, alignment and not be disgusted with it?

It’s no compromise to realize this world is not our home. A world that rejects Christ is going to do stuff like this. We should not be surprised.

Originally Posted by Bookman

It’s no compromise to realize this world is not our home. A world that rejects Christ is going to do stuff like this. We should not be surprised.

There is a very wide road that leads to Hell and many are on it, fewer yet know it.

I don't think that's the point Bookie is making.

We fight the good fight, but we all know the end of the book and we know what's coming. We shouldn't be surprised that the world hates us. They hated Him first.