Posted on 03/22/2011 9:18:13 AM PDT by greatdefender
"There's an app for that."
The catchphrase coined by Apple and their advertising gurus to sell iPhones and iPads has become so ubiquitous that it's even been parodied on Sesame Street. Still, few would have ever thought that the tech giant—which, like many other Silicon Valley concerns, boasts a progressive profile on many cultural issues, and extends domestic-partner benefits to gay and lesbian employees—would condone an app that purports to "cure" homosexuality. It would seem an even greater stretch for Apple and company founder and CEO Steve Jobs to make such an application available through its iTunes store.
Yet the app—by a ministry group called Exodus International—is right there, along the thousands of other iPhone apps available to plugged in Apple users. And this appears to be the point at which many of Apple's cultish fans—including plenty of gay activists—are drawing the line. No, they say: There's not actually an app for that.
The Exodus ministry seeks to promote the "ex-gay" movement—promulgating the testimony of people who claim to have been cured of homosexuality through Christ. The target audience for the smart-phone app, its makers say, are "homosexual strugglers." The idea is to teach gay people that they have a choice when it comes to their sexuality, a choice to choose "freedom from homosexuality through the power of Jesus."
Of course, providing a tech platform for a particular spiritual or ideological movement doesn't signify an endorsement of its point of view. At the same time, however, as Gawker's Ryan Tate noted during an earlier controversy over a gay-themed app, "every time Apple approves an app, it implies moral endorsement of the
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Here is my opinion for what it's worth:
I think that there is a VERY SMALL percentage of the population that is somehow "predisposed" to be homosexual. However, even among this group I believe that they only succumb after intensive pressuring by homosexuals.
I believe that there are a lot of people with various emotional conditions (oftentimes brought on by a lifetime of abuse) that result in such a horrible self-image that they are highly susceptible to the advances of homosexuals. However, with proper therapy and counseling these people will find it easy to abandon homosexuality once they rebuild their own sense of self-worth.
Most of what passes for bisexuality is really the same youthful hedonism that prompts young people to experiment with binge drinking and drugs. Most of them, assuming they don't destroy themselves in the process, will outgrow this as they mature and look back on these experiences with disgust.
I honestly don’t believe in the “bisexual” label as statistics show that “most” lesbians have more male partners than heterosexual women. Only about 2% (I think) have never had heterosexual sex. All labels do is encourage “special minority rights” and are usually based on a lie.
I personally know two “bisexual” young women. Both have had relationships with males and females although not usually at the same time. One, my step-daughter may have just been going through a phase in which she was infatuated with a female friend when both were only 14 and too young to know what they were even feeling.
Your opinion is supported by the scientific evidence.
Some of the rest of this is a rant and is not directed at anybody in particular.
The problem with the vast majority of people weighing in on the subject is they simply do not understand what the scientific evidence really means. And it ticks me off when people think their opinion based on ignorance of the scientific evidence on homosexuality carries any weight. It doesn't and they need to get over it and educate themselves.
Just because a very small percentage of the population can be predisposed to homosexuality DOES NOT in any way imply this very small percentage of the population will be attracted to the same sex. Some of you may want to read that again.
Yes, there is what can be termed a genetic predisposition or component to homosexuality. This doesn't mean what the left and others thinks it means. I'm talking about linkages, traits and associations. You have to understand what this means. You have to understand how little this means.
Are all effeminate men gay? No. There are actually more effeminate heterosexuals than homosexuals. Just because a young boy likes to play with dolls does not in any way imply he will grow up to have an attraction to the same sex. Just because a boy may like the finer things in life, be sensitive, intelligent, effeminate, left handed or whatever, does not mean he will grow up to have an attraction to the same sex.
To confuse you even more, there is no evidence homosexuality (same-sex attraction) is genetic. But what about linkages, traits and associations you may ask? Well, they don't support what many think they support. Same-sex attraction is not innate.
Every single scientific study that's been used to support the born that way theory has been debunked. Sometimes reporters will purposely twist the information to fit their bias. Every single credible scientific study supports environment as a major factor in determining our sexuality. The environment in which we are raised is not a minor factor, it's a major factor.
How is this for confusing... it's easier to become gay in California than in Oklahoma. Well, maybe that's not so confusing.
Well said.
sexual fetishes are a choice.
homosexuality is a sexual fetish
homosexuality is a choice.
just like all behaviors.
Is heterosexuality a choice?
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