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eHarmony Says OK to Same-Sex Matches (Sort of) [Court Mandated]
NBC 11 ^ | Wed, Nov 19, 2008

Posted on 11/19/2008 11:29:33 AM PST by nickcarraway

Edited on 11/19/2008 1:03:15 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]

Online dating service eHarmony is adding another personality trait to its 29 dimensions of computability.

The California-based company will begin providing same-sex matches under as part of a settlement with New Jersey's Civil Rights Division.

Garden State resident Eric McKinley filed a complaint against the online matchmaker in 2005.


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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Extended News; US: New Jersey
KEYWORDS: egay; eharmony; gaystapo; homosexualagenda; internet; newjersey; nj; perverts; ruling
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To: messierhunter

No kidding, I met my wife, and my brother met his wife on CatholicMatch.com. On CatholicMatch.com, you have to answer questions related to the Catholic faith.

It is difficult for me to imagine that a site — a private business — would be forced to accomodate immorality against their will. It does, unfortunately seem to be going that way though.


41 posted on 11/19/2008 11:52:57 AM PST by Crolis (Kill your television!)
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To: MrB

Okay...That there’s FUnnie!


42 posted on 11/19/2008 11:54:10 AM PST by Cletus.D.Yokel (Patriotism: Not voting for the candidate whose strongest qualification is being a minority.)
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To: Crolis

The way things are heading, Christians will soon be unable to enter a wide variety of professions unless they agree to compromise their beliefs to accommodate the liberal zeitgeist.


43 posted on 11/19/2008 12:03:13 PM PST by puroresu (Enjoy ASIAN CINEMA? See my Freeper page for recommendations (updated!).)
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To: nickcarraway

First they forced Christian ethics out of government, then schools, the armed forces, public spaces including privately-owned malls, hospitals and charities. Now they are trying to force Christian ethics out of businesses. Then they will go for churches themselves if they are any still standing for Christianity.


44 posted on 11/19/2008 12:04:38 PM PST by caseinpoint (Don't get thickly involved in thin things)
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To: nickcarraway

I’m not real sure I understand why they had to agree to this....

They are an internet outfit...could they simply tell NJ to bug[ger]-off?

What is New Jersey’s stick?


45 posted on 11/19/2008 12:05:17 PM PST by Adder (typical basicly decent bitter white person)
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To: WayneS

Adam and Steve.


46 posted on 11/19/2008 12:05:21 PM PST by machogirl (when the call comes at 3:00 am, Bill Ayers answers the phone)
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To: Responsibility2nd
I hope eHarmony fails because of this. If the company were mine, I would stick to my values - and stick to a working business plan - before I would allow this.

I hope eHarmony survives; they are innocent victims of predatory lawsuits. I would suggest that eHarmony not advertise for unwanted customers. They should charge gays who use their service against their will the same membership rates, run them through the same software, and ... oops ... find no matches for which their software has any data to support the pairing. Cost per member - $50 per month or whatever the going rate is. Number of matches found - zero. As much as I disapprove of rip-offs, when a customer demands that you provide service against your will, and a judge backs him in violation of the Free Exercise clause of the First Amendment, I think going through the motions is a good answer. No doubt, the founder of eHarmony would donate the money to a worthy and appropriate cause.

"Sorry judge, you ordered me to provide them with a membership opportunity, so I did. This is the best software I've got, and I don't know how to make it produce better results in the absence of data on what leads to lifelong commitment for the members. If you write the software for me, I'll use your software and see how it works. Otherwise, I don't know how to do what you're ordering any better than what I'm doing now, and neither does anyone else."

47 posted on 11/19/2008 12:06:59 PM PST by MathDoc (26 December 1860; 7 December 1941; 11 September 2001; 8 November 2008)
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To: MathDoc

If a judge will order a privately owned business to enact gay friendly policies, then what makes anyone think that same judge wont order eHarmony to develop software to match those fudgepackers.

And if eHarmoney does not comply.... they will be held in contempt of court and fined heavily.


48 posted on 11/19/2008 12:16:38 PM PST by Responsibility2nd
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To: nickcarraway

eSodomy
eDykes
ePolygamy
eSiblings
eBestiality
eNambla


49 posted on 11/19/2008 12:17:13 PM PST by TheDon
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To: nickcarraway

The next step is to legally bar clients from stating a preference.


50 posted on 11/19/2008 12:17:16 PM PST by Mojave (http://www.americanbacklash.com/)
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To: utahagen
Close down a business worth hundreds of millions--maybe even billions--of dollars? That's a pretty big hit to take just so he doesn't have to stick up some court-ordered site that no one will actually use.

Not to mention that the business has outside investors who wouldn't let him shut it down.

51 posted on 11/19/2008 12:21:33 PM PST by Arguendo
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To: Secret Agent Man

Second will be Craven Morecock.


52 posted on 11/19/2008 12:25:05 PM PST by Doohickey (The more cynical you become, the better off you'll be.)
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To: nickcarraway

Maybe its time to start a bunch of nuisance lawsuits against gay-based businesses who refuse to accomidate normal people? This wont stop until some gay oxes get gored.


53 posted on 11/19/2008 12:31:06 PM PST by Hacklehead (Liberalism is the art of taking what works, breaking it, and then blaming conservatives.)
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To: Arguendo

I know it’s a huge hit, but I think he should make a dramatic statement. You’re right: the outside investors would want a say. NCW can consult with financial people and find out how best to divest from the company. But I think it’s important that he walk away rather than promote — albeit, under duress — something I assume he believes is morally wrong.


54 posted on 11/19/2008 12:33:27 PM PST by utahagen
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To: nickcarraway

30 dimensions of compatibility?

I wasn’t aware that compatibility between faggots required anything more complex than mutual presence in a public restroom.


55 posted on 11/19/2008 12:41:08 PM PST by CGTRWK
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To: Doohickey

And Holden McGroin will be waiting to jump in.


56 posted on 11/19/2008 12:46:58 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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To: CGTRWK

So if you sign up now for eHarmony pay very close attention to which boxs you check off.


57 posted on 11/19/2008 12:49:58 PM PST by AU72
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To: Secret Agent Man

Phil McKrakken of bowling fame? He was hooked up with Vanessa Angel?


58 posted on 11/19/2008 12:54:04 PM PST by job
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To: ilgipper

I’d set this up (then after the intial fee spin it off into it’s own org, then let it go die): If I were NCW!


59 posted on 11/19/2008 1:04:24 PM PST by JSDude1 (PAUL BROUN for House Republican Minority Leader..Mike Pence for conference chair!)
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To: Adder

GAY FASCISM


60 posted on 11/19/2008 1:07:35 PM PST by JSDude1 (PAUL BROUN for House Republican Minority Leader..Mike Pence for conference chair!)
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