Chuck Colson has accused Apple CEO
Steve Jobs of censorship for rejecting an anti-gay marriage app from
its iTunes store and has vowed to fight on, RightWingWatch.org
reported.
Apple removed the Manhattan Declaration
app, a mobile version of the
manifesto unveiled last year in New York by religious leaders opposed
to gay marriage, from its digital store in November because “it
violates our developer guidelines by being offensive to large groups
of people.”
In December, the company went on to
reject a modified version of the app that removed a four-question
survey. One question asked, “Do you support same-sex
relationships?” Users who answered “yes” were told that they
had replied incorrectly.
In rejecting the resubmitted app, Apple
said the app was likely “to expose a group to harm” and “to be
objectionable and potentially harmful to others.”
In a four-minute-tweny-three-second
video released last week, Colson accused Jobs of censorship.
“Apple and our opponents are counting
on us to be wimps,” Colson said. “To grow weary and pack it in.
Steve Jobs at Apple has decided to hunker down and wait for the storm
to blow over and for us to give up.”
“My answer is, Mr. Jobs you are
wrong. We will persevere. Think of the consequences if we don't. A
major corporation which facilitates much of the information flow in
our country simply refuses to give access to one side of a hotly
contested moral and political issue. Other corporations would be
emboldened to do the same thing. And there goes our freedom of
speech. We must keep going until we win this battle with Apple.”
Colson also suggested that the
advancement of gay rights were responsible for tearing down “the
traditional moral order.”
“Even after the sexual revolution it
took decades before we started witnessing the almost complete
breakdown of sexual ethics. The gay rights crowd didn't pop up a few
years ago and start winning legal victories. Took them 40 years to
be where they are. On the verge now of having so-called same-sex
marriage become a law of the land. It took them decades to
infiltrate the schools, the media, network TV shows, to convince
legislatures, judges and cultural gatekeepers that gay sex is healthy
and normative.” (The video is embedded in the right panel of this
page.)
In a video released by the National
Organization for Marriage (NOM), Apple
CEO Steve Jobs is labeled “big brother” for removing the anti-gay
marriage app.