NEWS: ‘Gay Cure’ App Still Available On Google Play Despite 91000 Signatures

<p>Setting Captives Free, a controversial smartphone App, which offers to 'cure' people of their homosexuality is still available to download on the Google Play store despite a growing petition asking Google to remove the app.</p> <p>by Newsdesk | 5th June 2013</p><p></p><p> </p><p><img src="http://www.thegayuk.com/communities/8/004/009/928/388/images/4593305027.png" width="460" height="257" alt="Setting Captives Free" title="Setting Captives Free"/></p> <p></p><p>91,000 people have signed an online petition at AllOut.org asking Internet giant Google to remove an offending App, that offers users a 'freedom from the bondage of homosexuality'</p><p></p><p>The App which claims to have already helped over 500,000 people 'escape impurity, over-eating, substance abuse, gambling, smoking and more’, was removed last week from the Apple iTunes store, but Google has yet to remove the App.</p><p></p><p>A statement from AllOut.org writes: 'UPDATE: After just 24 hours the app has disappeared from the iTunes store! Only Google is left with the harmful app still available in their online marketplace. It's working – keep up the pressure by signing and sharing!</p><p></p><p>Gay 'cures'? There shouldn't be an app for that. But, there's a new one called "Setting Captives Free," available in both the Apple iTunes and Google Play stores, meant to teach you how to stop being gay.</p><p></p><p>It's a 60-day course that tells gay people they are not "born this way" and offers to help them find "freedom from the bondage of homosexuality." </p><p></p><p>These so-called treatments can cause terrible harm to lesbian, gay, bi, and trans people, or anyone forced to try to change who they are or who they love.</p><p></p><p>Apple and Google have policies against these kinds of apps but so far this one has escaped their notice. Sign now to tell them to drop this and all other gay 'cure' apps!'</p><p></p><p>The App, was available from Apple's iTunes however the company removed the App after just one day of petitioning. </p><p></p><p>To add your name to the petition <a href="https://www.allout.org/en/actions/gaycureapp?utm_source=platform&utm_medium=email&utm_content=english&utm_campaign=gaycureapp&t=dXNlcmlkPTE2MDU3OTQxLGVtYWlsaWQ9MjE5NzE=">CLICK HERE</a></p><p> </p><p></p><p></p><p> </p><p><img src="http://www.thegayuk.com/communities/8/004/009/928/388/images/4586001108.jpg" width="380" height="28" alt="" title=""/></p> <p><a href="http://www.thegayuk.com/#/magazine/4574334751/News-Lords-Vote-In-Favour-Of-Gay-Marriage/5842580">News: Lords Vote In Favour Of Gay Marriage</a></p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.thegayuk.com/magazine/4574334751/NEWS-Hope-for-a-HIV-Vaccine/5829538">NEWS: Hope for a HIV Vaccine</a></p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.thegayuk.com/magazine/4574334751/NEWS-Apple-Removes-'Gay-Cure'-App/5807511">NEWS: Apple Removes 'Gay Cure' App</a></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p> </p>