LAGent4ts
03-22-2011, 07:25 AM
A friend of mine sent this to me along with the links to the petition. It never ceases to amaze me how many ignorant and misguided individuals there are in the world. As of today, 100,000+ had signed the petition to ban the iPhone application.
Anti-LGBT Rhetoric Goes Mobile Via iPhone/iPod Application
Exodus International, a large Christian organization which promises to change people from gay, or bisexual, or transgender, or gender variant to straight, gender conforming, “acceptable” Christians, recently released an iPhone/iPod (http://www.change.org/petitions/demand-that-apple-remove-ex-gay-iphone-app)application in apples iTunes Store (http://www.change.org/petitions/demand-that-apple-remove-ex-gay-iphone-app).
Truth Wins Out put together a petition on change.org calling for Apple to remove the application as it violates the companies store policy that “any app that is defamatory, offensive, mean-spirited, or likely to place the targeted individual or group in harms way will be rejected.”
Exodus International claims to offer “freedom from homosexuality through the power of Jesus Christ” but what they really offer is slick PR and their own definitions of “change” and “freedom.” Using scare tactics, shame, and outright straight supremacy (http://petersontoscano.wordpress.com/2011/03/20/love-the-straight-supremacist-hate-straight-supremacy/), they work with vulnerable individuals to surpress their natural sexual orientations and gender identities and presentations and to replace them with straight, “gender conforming” behaviors and identities.
join us in signing the petition on change.org (http://www.change.org/petitions/demand-that-apple-remove-ex-gay-iphone-app) and demand that Apple remove this misleading, hateful, harmful application. After you sign the petition, please forward this email to your friends and family
Related Links
http://www.soulforce.org/blog/anti-lgbt-rhetoric-goes-mobile/
http://www.truthwinsout.org/category/pressreleases/
Anti-LGBT Rhetoric Goes Mobile Via iPhone/iPod Application
Exodus International, a large Christian organization which promises to change people from gay, or bisexual, or transgender, or gender variant to straight, gender conforming, “acceptable” Christians, recently released an iPhone/iPod (http://www.change.org/petitions/demand-that-apple-remove-ex-gay-iphone-app)application in apples iTunes Store (http://www.change.org/petitions/demand-that-apple-remove-ex-gay-iphone-app).
Truth Wins Out put together a petition on change.org calling for Apple to remove the application as it violates the companies store policy that “any app that is defamatory, offensive, mean-spirited, or likely to place the targeted individual or group in harms way will be rejected.”
Exodus International claims to offer “freedom from homosexuality through the power of Jesus Christ” but what they really offer is slick PR and their own definitions of “change” and “freedom.” Using scare tactics, shame, and outright straight supremacy (http://petersontoscano.wordpress.com/2011/03/20/love-the-straight-supremacist-hate-straight-supremacy/), they work with vulnerable individuals to surpress their natural sexual orientations and gender identities and presentations and to replace them with straight, “gender conforming” behaviors and identities.
join us in signing the petition on change.org (http://www.change.org/petitions/demand-that-apple-remove-ex-gay-iphone-app) and demand that Apple remove this misleading, hateful, harmful application. After you sign the petition, please forward this email to your friends and family
Related Links
http://www.soulforce.org/blog/anti-lgbt-rhetoric-goes-mobile/
http://www.truthwinsout.org/category/pressreleases/