Ex-Gay Organization Now on Your iPhone
March 8th, 2011
Exodus International, the organization that claims to bring “healing to homosexuals,” has released a free iPhone application.
Users can receive blog posts and podcasts to their smartphone, as well as updates about Exodus International events. According to the iPhone app store:
Exodus International is the world’s largest ministry to individuals and families impacted by homosexuality. With over 35 years of ministry experience, Exodus is committed to encouraging, educating and equipping the Body of Christ to address the issue of homosexuality with grace and truth.
Exodus might have also given some clue that it campaigns against equal rights for gays and lesbians, and that its leader believes gays are “God’s handicapped children.” A more transparent description would have given users a better idea of what Exodus stands for.
I hate to say it, but I am downloading the app just to see what they are peddling. I’ll be sure to give it a 1-star rating, though.
I remember Truth Wins Out reporting on Exodus developing this, way back in November. Is there any specific efforts to have it pulled yet? Like maybe a petition one could sign?
This looks really lame? Is it like Grindr? how do you find other ex gays?
I don’t really think Exodus has a ministry to anyone – especially gay people. I just don’t think what they do could be categorized as ministry. But leaving that aside, I dare say The Episcopal Church, The U.C.C., the Quakers, just to mention a few, minister to more LGBTQ folks than Exodus, and for the most part actually do minister in an affirming and life-giving way and without creating gay ghettos.
Exodus made sure to point that out.
Didn’t the Manhattan Project app receive the same rating initially?
@Bearence
Bearence, yes, there is a petition: http://www.change.org/petitions/demand-that-apple-remove-ex-gay-iphone-app. Please sign and circulate amongst your email contacts and social networks. Thanks!
Exodus is like someone who decides you’re sleeping too much, so they throw a rattlesnake in your bed as a wake-up call, and then after you are bitten and in pain from the venom, they offer to sell you coffee with delicious danish to help keep you awake and your mind off the pain. And why do they do all this? Because they love you, of course.