{"id":598,"date":"2019-09-23T14:08:56","date_gmt":"2019-09-23T18:08:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stewardshipworks.org\/blog\/?p=598"},"modified":"2019-10-24T10:34:26","modified_gmt":"2019-10-24T14:34:26","slug":"how-apple-killed-the-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stewardshipworks.org\/blog\/?p=598","title":{"rendered":"How Apple Killed the App"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Stewardship Foundations\u2019 credo is defined in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.manhattandeclaration.org\/\">Manhattan Declaration: A Call of Christian Conscience<\/a> first written in 2009. It was a popular movement among Christians of all faiths. There was even an app on iTunes so people could sign their agreement to its principles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So here we are, ten years later, living in a society where our young people consider same-sex marriage and abortion as simply individual \u201cchoices without consequences\u201d even while they continue to believe in God, attend Church with their family, and pin \u201cprayer hands\u201d emoticons on chat apps and Facebook.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stewardshipworks.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/2019_Oct_image-1024x683.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-599\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.stewardshipworks.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/2019_Oct_image-1024x683.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.stewardshipworks.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/2019_Oct_image-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.stewardshipworks.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/2019_Oct_image-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.stewardshipworks.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/2019_Oct_image.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Declaration itself always suffered the expected criticism from left-leaning media pundits and non-believers, but no one would have thought that the giants in technology would suppress its message of hope, faith, and charity.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To allow its message to be heard and to gain more signatures, the Manhattan Declaration designed and placed an app on Apple\u2019s iTunes store.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shortly thereafter, in November 2010, Apple received 7,000 signatures arguing that the app was homophobic and offensive. Apple removed the app, saying that it \u201cviolates our developer guidelines by being offensive to large groups of people.\u201d Within a month, more than 45,000 had signed a counter-petition to have the app reinstated. Regardless, it remains invisible on the web.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Has political correctness gone too far? Is it stifling our rights to express our faith and beliefs? It appears so. But not at the Stewardship Foundation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Stewardship Foundations\u2019 credo is defined in the Manhattan Declaration: A Call of Christian Conscience first written in 2009. It was a popular movement among Christians of all faiths. There was even an app on iTunes so people could sign their agreement to its principles. So here we are, ten years later, living in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[209],"class_list":["post-598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-manhattan-declaration","tag-manhattan-declaration-itunes-app"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stewardshipworks.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stewardshipworks.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stewardshipworks.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stewardshipworks.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stewardshipworks.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=598"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stewardshipworks.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":600,"href":"https:\/\/www.stewardshipworks.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598\/revisions\/600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stewardshipworks.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stewardshipworks.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stewardshipworks.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}