Quotation Marks: Apple's anti-app "animus," Pat Robertson's pot pronouncement, and other statements of note in the church around the world.

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Apple's anti-app "animus," Pat Robertson's pot pronouncement, and other statements of note in the church around the world.

Compiled by Ted Olsen

[ posted 1/26/2011 10:15AM ]

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"really enjoyed living this year …. I hav so many wishes in 2011 … hope they come true … plz god stay beside me & help make it all true."
Mariouma Fekry, posting on Facebook shortly before leaving for a New Year's church service in Alexandria, Egypt. Fekry was one of 23 Coptic Christians killed when the service was bombed.
Source: Facebook (via the Guardian)

"I'm not exactly for the use of drugs—don't get me wrong—but I just believe that criminalizing marijuana … [is] costing us a fortune and it's ruining young people."
Pat Robertson, on the December 16 700 Club broadcast.
Source: Religion News Service

"It is difficult to see how this is anything other than a statement of animus by a major American corporation against the beliefs of millions of Protestant, Catholic and Orthodox citizens."
Organizers of the Manhattan Declaration (a document on abortion, marriage, and religious liberty), after Apple rejected the group's resubmitted iPhone application. Apple said even the scaled-down version was "likely to expose a group to harm" and "to be objectionable and potentially harmful to others."
Source: ManhattanDeclaration.org

"It's a little cheesy, but cheese works."
Ed Young, on using 3-D videos in services at Fellowship Church.
Source: Dallas Morning News

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Patrick Gann

January 27, 2011 10:53am

I said in my first post (which has, strangely, gone missing?) that Apple's given reason was awful (I believe I referred to it as "censorship"). Apple needs to get wiser about this stuff, without question. My point was merely that the Manhattan Declaration folks have no reason to make an App, at least from what they've said. What function could it possibly provide that isn't already available on the Internet, which is accessible from all iOS devices?

David White

January 26, 2011 2:51pm

Patrick Gann would have made a good point, if Apple had reject the application on the basis that it was unnecessary. However, Apple offered a more chilling reason that it was "likely to expose a group to harm" and "to be objectionable and potentially harmful to others."

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