Become heterosexual? There's an App for that

Posted on Friday, March 18, 2011 at 09:48 AM

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With an iPhone you can connect your friends and family, you can listen to your music, surf the web - and now you can become heterosexual too.

Who knew Apple now provides apps that can transform not just technology but your sexual orientation?

I have to hand it to Apple: that is probably the ultimate example of thinking differently.

But hold up, what am I taking about? I'm talking about Exodus International, the fringe evangelical group recognized by the Southern Poverty Law Group as a hate group.

Exodus have created a new iPhone app (now available at the App Store) that they say can help you gain - ah - "freedom from homosexuality through the power of Jesus Christ."

Ain't technology great? When Jesus meets the A4 chip apparently all things are possible. I just wonder what the download time will be?

I also wonder if we'll soon have an app that can change your eye color or perhaps your race even? If you can change your orientation with help from Jesus and Apple, why stop there? I see a whole new vista ahead of us.

Exodus say they can "change" your sexual orientation (or just curb it to the point where it's been basically eradicated) even though their quack psychology has been condemned by the American Psychological Association, the American Medical Association, and the American Counseling Association.

Hey, as they say, details.

Apple is keeping really strange bedfellows. It really doesn't matter at all that they're all chaste. This stuff is just nuts. And it's targeting vulnerable teens at a time when the last thing they need is someone ostracizing and condemning them for decisions they probably haven't even made yet.

Steve Jobs needs to step up now. We don't condone racism, or sexism or sectarianism - so why should we condone an extremist anti-gay group selling their quack psychology on our phones?

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maloney | Mar 30, 2011, 03:02 PM EDT

de-fagged.

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hollabackgurl | Mar 28, 2011, 01:39 PM EDT

Are you an intelligent sophisticated former human, BishopSean? Will you take a journey out of imbecility and incredulity anytime soon? Hugs.

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BishopSean | Mar 19, 2011, 05:12 PM EDT

The leadership of Exodus International are intelligent, sophisticated former homosexuales who learned that they did not have to remain that way. You do a disservice by discouraging people who do not want to remain in the gay lifestyle by insisting that they must be resigned to it. Read past President of Exodus Joe Dallas' book titled STRONG DELUSION about his journey, and those of others, out of homosexuality. Dallas was formerly a pastor of a gay church who realized, down deep, he did not believe that homosexuality was inescapable. Best regards.

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maloney | Mar 19, 2011, 12:04 AM EDT

Pooof, your a hetero!

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fromGort | Mar 18, 2011, 01:49 PM EDT

Fortunately or unfortunately, depending on your point of view, having the app available is part of their freedom to express their beliefs. No one is forcing anyone to use the app so should be allowed (even if I don't agree with them). Freedom of expression is a double-edged sword.

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JeffGallagher | Mar 18, 2011, 11:04 AM EDT

The most important statement in this article is, "targeting vulnerable teens... condemning them for decisions they probably haven't made yet." But, why aren't mom and dad checking the phone to make sure they haven't downloaded stupid stuff to begin with. Leave Jobs out of this. Where's the parental responsibility?

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oldboreen | Mar 18, 2011, 11:01 AM EDT

No doubt some misguided uptight souls will fall for this rubbish. Exodus will have something to answer for. This App is dangerous. Gay Catholic Irish guy, happy that God made me this way. So God made a mistake???

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colkelley | Mar 18, 2011, 09:53 AM EDT

Lord help me...Cahir and I are in agreement...Armageddon has come! Sexual orientation is a birth reality, not an attitude, interest, or mental illness - although dealing with the societal pressures of homosexuality CAN result in some emotional problems. A British physiologist did thousands of brain autopsies of men who were known to be homosexual and men who were known to be heterosexual. He discovered that the brains of homosexual men were structured more closely to those of heterosexual woman than they were to heterosexual males. That makes a very strong case for "born that way." I hope Apple will put this App back where it belongs and not on their approved list.

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