The Christian ministry Setting Captives Free has recently created a free app for both Android and the iPhone which offers many of its courses online. Many of them look good on the surface--there are courses on how to be free from addictions to gambling, eating disorders and drugs. But if there was ever a case of one bad thing ruining a potentially good thing, it's a course called "Door of Hope," which purports to "help" people stop being gay in only 60 days.
The course's information page includes most of the standard testimonies from "ex-gays" who stumbled on this course and are now unequivocally straight. Among them--a guy who claims he was turned gay as a result of reading porn and at least three who were molested as kids. Never mind that "pray away the gay" has been completely and thoroughly debunked, and has been condemned as harmful and hurtful by the American Psychiatric Association and many governments.
Google Play's content policy specifically forbids hate speech, and both Google and Apple have spiked ex-gay apps in the past. Well, this is one more app that needs to go. If you have an Android or iPhone, report this app as inappropriate. Also, sign this petition AllOut started asking Apple and Google to take this app down. While Setting the Captives Free can promote this bilge on the Internet, they shouldn't be allowed to use Android and iPhone to further the cause.
3:01 PM PT: Gooderservice reports in the comments that Apple just took down the iPhone version of the Setting the Captives Free app. One down, one to go ...