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Earlier this week, Apple booted the Manhattan Declaration app from the App Store. The  "anti-gay" app was banned, at least in part, due to a petition initiated by Change.org which garnered 7,700 signatures. Since then, the Manhattan Declaration has posted a similar pro-app petition on its site, and that petition has gotten over 480,000 signatures.

Upon removing the app, Apple said, "We removed the Manhattan Declaration app from the App Store because it violates our developer guidelines by being offensive to large groups of people." The Manhattan Declaration released a statement asking Apple to rethink its decision, saying that "disagreement" is not "gay-bashing" and thus not in violation of Apple's policies.

Looking at the letter of the law in terms of Apple's policies, "offensive to large groups of people" would mean that the app does not have to "gay bash" to be excluded from the App Store. In fact, the app could be offensive to both gays and their straight supporters.