Google has remove a so - call “ gay conversion ” app developed by Living Hope Ministries , a Texas - based Christian organization that endeavor to win over gay people that they can live as neat citizenry with enough prayer andreligious therapy . For month , the companydug in its heelsrefusing to remove the app which has already been dropped by Apple , Amazon , and Microsoft .
“ After consulting with outside protagonism group , retrospect our policies , and making sure we had a exhaustive understanding of the app and its relation to spiritual rebirth therapy , we ’ve decide to remove it from the Play Store , consistent with other app stores , ” a Google representative order Gizmodo over email .
The decision come after the Human Rights Campaign , America ’s big LGBTQ right organisation , revoked its indorsement of Google this hebdomad over the tech behemoth ’s indisposition to off the app from the Google Play Store . The grouping released its 2019Corporate Equality Indexon March 28 and did n’t include Google this year . The tech giant has antecedently get a perfect score from the Human Rights Campaign .
“ We applaud Google for making the right decisiveness to pull this app from their on-line store , ” Human Rights Campaign President Chad Griffin told Gizmodo in an electronic mail . “ So - called conversion therapy is a debunked exercise that ’s tantamount to nestling ill-treatment and is proven to have dangerous consequences for its dupe . Google and other political program that have pulled this app are ask an crucial step to protect LGBTQ young . ”
Living Hope Ministries arrogate that its advocacy does n’t plight in homophile conversion therapy or conduct services of “ pray the homosexual forth . ” The organisation insisted in a web log postaddressed to Applein January that it provides a “ safe space for hoi polloi who struggle with SSA , ” the acronym used in some far - right religious community of interests for what they call “ same - sexual activity attractive feature . ”
good word on the mathematical group ’s website include endorsements from Christians who believe that their queerness is something that they should be ashamed of . It ’s uncheerful , tosay the least :
In 2004 I had an liaison with a fair sex after having been married for 14 year . I think I had fuck off past this lifestyle , but have since realized I got married because I thought it was the correct affair to do . LHM has aid heal the brokenness in my life-time , which in turn has help me grow my relationship with God and my husband .
Organizations like Living Hope Ministries are just spread out pain sensation and shame by assert that gay , lesbian , and trans citizenry are the great unwashed who demand to be repair . At least Living Hope Ministries wo n’t be able to go around its garbage political orientation of hatred on the Google Play Store any longer .
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