Apple has removed a "gay cure" application from its App Store following a swift backlash. The app launched last month by the fervently anti-gay Exodus Ministries was met with a global outcry, led by a group which battles anti-gay religious extremism Two Wins Out. The group pointed out that any therapy or cures to change sexual orientation have been soundly rejected by all the major medical associations and launched an online petition, which received 150,000 signatures over just a few days. Apple spokesman Tom Neumayr told CNET that Apple pulled the application because "it violates our developer guidelines by being offensive to large groups of people." "Apple made a wise and responsible decision to dump an offensive app that demonized gay and lesbian people," Wayne Besen, executive director of Truth Wins Out, said in a statement. "The real winners today are LGBT youth who are safer and less at risk for receiving Exodus' malice and misinformation."
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First published: Thursday, 24th March 2011 - 12:56pm