Apple pulls anti-gay, anti-choice app from iTunes Store

[FreeState]

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/112910-apple-pulls-anti-gay-app-from.html

After some controversy and complaints, Apple has reportedly pulled an application from the iTunes App Store after claims it was anti-gay.

Highlighted by The Huffington Post and others last week due to its reportedly objectionable content, the Manhattan Declaration iPhone application has been quietly removed sometime in the last few days.


Apple's decision may have been influenced by an online petition at Change.org calling for the application to be removed.

The petition organisers asked those unhappy with the initial decision to contact Apple's CEO Steve Jobs, signing a statement: "Please remove anti-LGBT, anti-women application from iTunes Store."

I emailed Steve Jobs last week pointing out that the declaration is sponsored by a hate group according to the Southern Poverty Law Center. I don't know if he even got my email but Im sure that SPLC statement helped.

http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2010/winter/the-hard-liners

The National Organization for Marriage (NOM), which is dedicated to fighting same-sex marriage in state legislatures, was organized in 2007 by conservative syndicated columnist Maggie Gallagher and Princeton University politics professor Robert George. George is an influential Christian thinker who co-authored the 2009 “Manhattan Declaration,” a manifesto developed after a New York meeting of conservative church leaders that “promises resistance to the point of civil disobedience against any legislation that might implicate their churches or charities in abortion, embryo-destructive research or same sex marriage.”

[laconicsax]

1. Of course being homophobic didn't prevent it from being added to the app store in the first place...

If I were into conspiratorial thinking, I'd suggest that they approve these apps just so they can get credit for pulling them.