Posted on 07/01/2016 10:53:00 PM PDT by lowbridge
The owner of online dating site ChristianMingle.com has agreed to let gay and lesbian users search for same-sex matches under a judge-approved settlement of discrimination claims.
Two gay men filed class-actions claims against Spark Networks Inc. in California courts in 2013 alleging that ChristianMingle.com and several other sites in the company’s portfolio of niche dating services excluded users looking to meet singles of the same sex.
ChristianMingle, billed as the largest online community for Christian singles, required new users to specify whether they’re a man seeking a woman or a woman seeking a man. The lead plaintiffs, two gay men who tried using it, claimed that the limited options violated California’s anti-discrimination law.
Known as the Unruh Civil Rights Act, the state law requires “business establishments” to offer “full and equal accommodations” to people regardless of their sexual orientation.
Under the agreement, the gateway homepages now ask just whether a user is a “man” or a “woman.” Spark Networks agreed that within two years, it would adjust other searching and profile features to give gay and lesbian singles a more tailored experience.
The terms approved by a state judge on Monday also apply to other Spark sites — including CatholicMingle.com, AdventistSinglesConnection.com and BlackSingles.com — that had operated in the same way.
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GayChristianMingle?
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Cool...then label that the morally perverted section.
What's next, Catholic priest performing same-sex marriages in Catholic churches??
this is absurd.
what’s next? courts dictating that Catholic Churches should have islamic prayer rooms because it’s discriminatory to exclude jihadis from the premises?
we really need to start pushing back against this cultural marxist garbage.
>what’s next? courts dictating that Catholic Churches should have islamic prayer rooms because it’s discriminatory to exclude jihadis from the premises?
Yes.
Why is it limited to “singles”???
Sounds like a lawsuit to me... for married people at least.... ....Sign up early..Vote often...
Well, there goes that.
Uh, actually yes that’s next.
A bill pending in the California legislatures would force Christian, schools, colleges and seminaries to accept students living a sexually immoral life and would prohibit them being expelled.
EXCELLENT observation. EXCELLENT.
Any specialty service is going to be dealt the death of a thousand inclusions.
Might initiate a spate of persecution, but it will also remind Christian-by-name groups what Christian really means. And no it doesn’t most fundamentally mean a bunch of rules; it means accepting the love of a Savior with power that transforms. Those with a mere list of rules can be pressured into weaseling around the rules. Those who know what the life of the Savior is like, will stick to that and be found faithful unto death.
I wonder who this Spark Networks is. Sounds like it might be a secular firm that was looking for business in the Christian market. This “gay inclusiveness” is going to be a poison pill to it.
..... Perhaps you may may want to consider this ..... ELECTIONS HAVE CONSEQUENCES!!!! ..... Oh ..... And there are are LEGION who can Play chess .... much better than you.
That's racis'!
Why aren't they required to offer 57 different genders to select from?
Regards,
Yer right! No fair to the trannies and the hemidemisemisexuals etc.
How about ethnic origin sites?
Exactly. Many gay Christians feel the same way. Especially, but by no means exclusively, a large number of Catholic priests.
"The love that can't say it's name" is now the mental illness that won't STFU.
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