"This is cyber spiritual abuse that promotes backward ideas in a modern package," said Besen. "Gay Catholics don't need to confess, they need to come out of the closet and challenge anti-gay dogma. The false idea that being gay is something to be ashamed of has destroyed too many lives. This iPhone app is facilitating and furthering the harm."
There has been building concern by numerous rights groups at the uses of technology to unfairly single out and target minorities particularly the LGBTQ community. Besen in an example, pointed to the Manhattan Declaration app, released last October following the release of a 5,000-word petition drawn up by several Christian groups whom are vehemently against LGBT rights and same-sex marriage.
A web based campaign that spread among progressive blogs and websites prompted Apple's iTunes store to pull that app.
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When can we expect an iphone app for the Catholic religion to apologize to gay people and other other people it has persecuted, assassinated, murdered, burnt at the stake and in general acted atrociously towards the human race?
(yeah, I know I missed out on the paedophile priests, but I didn't want to seem like I was picking on them for them just for my own indulgence.)
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