Apple pulled a Christian ministry's app after LGBT advocates said it portrayed being gay as a "sickness," a charge the ministry says is false.
NBC News reported that the tech giant removed the app that was developed by Living Hope Ministries, a Texas-based organization, following a Change.org petition from gay rights group Truth Wins Out. The petition called the "ex-gay" app "dangerous," "bigoted" and "hateful."
"The app falsely portrays being gay as an 'addiction', 'sickness', and 'sin,'" the petition argued.
Living Hope Ministries is expressing disappointment over the move but says their work will continue....