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Posted on 11/20/2008 11:59:20 AM PST by mojito
So, this is “progress?” eHarmony, a Christian-targeted dating website, gets sued by a gay man demanding that the business match him up with a same-sex partner. The New Jersey Attorney General intervenes on behalf of the gay plaintiff and forces eHarmony to change its entire business model. To be clear: The company never refused to do business with anyone. Their great “sin” was not providing a specialized service that litigious gay people demanded they provide. This case is akin to a meat-eater suing a vegetarian restaurant for not offering him a ribeye or a female patient suing a vasectomy doctor for not providing her hysterectomy services. Sadly, eHarmony has settled . I wish they hadn’t, but I understand the decision given the chilling antics of the anti-Prop. 8 mob. The company agreed not only to offer same-sex dating services on a new site, but also to offer six-month subscriptions for free to 10,000 gay users. Behold the submission:
Coming soon to EHarmony — Adam and Steve.
The Pasadena-based dating website, heavily promoted by Christian evangelical leaders when it was founded, has agreed in a civil rights settlement to give up its heterosexuals-only policy and offer same-sex matches.
EHarmony was started by psychologist Neil Clark Warren, who is known for his mild-mannered television and radio advertisements. It must not only implement the new policy by March 31 but also give the first 10,000 same-sex registrants a free six-month subscription.
“That was one of the things I asked for,” said Eric McKinley, 46, who complained to New Jersey’s Division on Civil Rights after being turned down for a subscription in 2005.
The company said that Warren was not giving interviews on the settlement. But attorney Theodore Olson, who issued a statement on the company’s behalf, made clear that it did not agree to offer gay matches willingly. “Even though we believed that the complaint resulted from an unfair characterization of our business,” Olson said, “we ultimately decided it was best to settle this case with the attorney general since litigation outcomes can be unpredictable.”
The settlement, which did not find that EHarmony broke any laws, calls for the company to either offer the gay matches on its current venue or create a new site for them. EHarmony has opted to create a site called Compatiblepartners.net.
Warren had said in past interviews that he didn’t want to feature same-sex services on EHarmony — which matches people based on long questionnaires concerning personality traits, relationship history and interests — because he felt he didn’t know enough about gay relationships. eHarmony had been previously sued by a lesbian looking to force the company to match her up with another woman and by a married man who sought to force the company to hook him up in an adulterous relationship.
Perhaps heterosexual men and women should start filing lawsuits against gay dating websites and undermine their business. Coerced tolerance and diversity-by-fiat cut both ways.
Welcome to eQueer.
Couldn’t they just claim that they don’t have the expertise to offer same sex matchups?
If I was eHarmony, I’d update the matching algorithm just for homos. :)
I wonder what the average Obama voter would think about this? I wonder if they even know about it?
I heard about this yesterday.
Goes along with all the other crap being forced on Americans by the liberal establishment.
All I can say is, what goes around, comes around.
Next stop...dating the neighbor’s Poodle.
EBuggery.com
Right now, in Southern Idaho, there are some sheep herders calling their lawyers.
You mean like matching George Michael with Rosie O'Donuts?
This is an absolute travesty. I can’t believe that I am hearing this in the United States that I love. Why can’t these whiners go out and invest in the research and put together a website of their own that caters to those they wish to reach? They are forcing Christians to wallow in the mud with them. I know. I realize that ultimately that is what this is all about, but it makes me very, very angry. FWIW, I met my husband online in a dating site. It was a freebie long before eHarmony came on line. We’ve been happily married nearly 12 years now. Why couldn’t these people use these other sites like other people have? Like my husband and I did? Government has NO RIGHT entering into private business.
Majority of homosexuals who would use this "service" aren't interested in "long-term, committed" relationships.
Miserable together for them begins with the dawn of the next day.
Exactly! Set the new website up for failure. Nothing illegal about that.
Unbelievable! What’s the website address now: www.equeerharmony?
From what I have seen of homsexual partnerings over the years, they are ALL miserable.
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Theodore Olsen?
A large majority of them are very angry and hateful people. This is what directs everything they do. There are many nice ones but most of them are angry and I should know. I have a gay family member and have spent much time in the gay community. And many of them will even admit to being angry.
Anybody that believes this idiot is anything but a professional gay who is looking for any venue to gay-up is delusional. There's a ton of gay singles websites that he could have gone to and he knows it. This lawsuit was strictly about forcing a non-gay venue to be gay, NOT about looking for a date and NOT about feeling 'discriminated' against.
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