Google Loses Gay-Rights Endorsement Over Controversial Conversion Therapy App
Google lost an endorsement from the Human Rights Campaign, the largest and most aggressive U.S. LGBTQ group, over an app tied to the practice of so-called “conversion therapy” to change a gay person’s sexual orientation or gender identity. The app, however, is just an online pastoral counseling method to help those who want to leave the homosexual lust filled lifestyle choices. Alphabet Inc.’s Google, which had previously scored a perfect 100 on the annual Corporate Equality Index, will have its rating withheld until the app is removed from its Android phones, Human Rights Campaign said in a statement. It’s only the third time in the 17-year history of the index that a rating has been withheld. But who cares what HRC says or does? “We have been urging Google to remove this app because it is life-threatening to LGBTQ youth and also clearly violates the company’s own standards,” the Human Rights Campaign said in a statement. The program has already been removed from app stores run by