E-Harmony to offer same sex website

[JagFarlane]

Courtesy of a complain filed by the New Jersey attorney generals office, E-Harmony will now finally offer a same-sex website.

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[impressive]

I hate sites that make you pick a gender. What if you don't want to limit your choices? With most sites, that means creating two separate profiles. I prefer OKCupid, because I don't have to choose M or F.

 

[3113]

Courtesy of a complain filed by the New Jersey attorney generals office, E-Harmony will now finally offer a same-sex website.

Hell just froze over! Actually, it figures that it'd require a legal complaint. As I recall E-Harmony's founder is something of an evangelical Christian. Which begs the question...do these same-sex folk still have to be religious? I seem to recall that the test one takes to see if E-Harmony can match you has a bias against those who state that they are not of any religion, as compared to those who check off an religion. They often tell atheists that they can't help them.

 

[Selena_Kitt]

Hell just froze over! Actually, it figures that it'd require a legal complaint. As I recall E-Harmony's founder is something of an evangelical Christian. Which begs the question...do these same-sex folk still have to be religious? I seem to recall that the test one takes to see if E-Harmony can match you has a bias against those who state that they are not of any religion, as compared to those who check off an religion. They often tell atheists that they can't help them.

Isn't he the old guy on the commercial? Yeah, I can see that...

 

[alyxen]

Hell just froze over! Actually, it figures that it'd require a legal complaint. As I recall E-Harmony's founder is something of an evangelical Christian. Which begs the question...do these same-sex folk still have to be religious? I seem to recall that the test one takes to see if E-Harmony can match you has a bias against those who state that they are not of any religion, as compared to those who check off an religion. They often tell atheists that they can't help them.

I got through even with no religion chosen. Course I didn't have much luck once there, but that is another story, yeah?

 

[Sandy_Fox]

Hell just froze over! Actually, it figures that it'd require a legal complaint. As I recall E-Harmony's founder is something of an evangelical Christian. Which begs the question...do these same-sex folk still have to be religious? I seem to recall that the test one takes to see if E-Harmony can match you has a bias against those who state that they are not of any religion, as compared to those who check off an religion. They often tell atheists that they can't help them.

Isn't he the old guy on the commercial? Yeah, I can see that...

"Hi, I'm Dr. Neil Clark Warren. I'd just like to welcome all of you heathens and homos to my site. Those anti-christ loving, liberal, homo defending judges are making me let you in, but don't be real surprised if you end up being matched with the fugliest, nastiest, most disgusting scank or trog I can find. Go with god, my friends and enjoy burning in the fires of hell."

*said in best Neil Clark Warren voice*


Quote from ECW: "Where Focus on the Family and a lot of these other places come from is that there are six places in the Bible that say homosexuality is wrong."

 

[Stella_Omega]

I got through even with no religion chosen. Course I didn't have much luck once there, but that is another story, yeah?

Try plentyoffish.com instead.

 

[cloudy]

Okay, I'll probably get flamed for this, but...

His is a private business dealing with matchmaking a man with a woman (or vice versa). I don't see how he can be forced to set up a site for same sex matchmaking.

Look at it this way: if he had started out with same sex matchmaking only, would there have been a lawsuit forcing him to open a new division for heterosexual couples?

I dunno, I'm struggling with this. I certainly believe that gay people are entitled to the same rights as heterosexuals, but his wasn't a public thing...it was a private business. There are alternatives for gays, aren't there?

Like I said, I'm struggling with this because it doesn't seem right, really. If I opened a women only spa, would I be forced to allow men? Or vice versa?

 

[Sandy_Fox]

Okay, I'll probably get flamed for this, but...

His is a private business dealing with matchmaking a man with a woman (or vice versa). I don't see how he can be forced to set up a site for same sex matchmaking.

Look at it this way: if he had started out with same sex matchmaking only, would there have been a lawsuit forcing him to open a new division for heterosexual couples?

I dunno, I'm struggling with this. I certainly believe that gay people are entitled to the same rights as heterosexuals, but his wasn't a public thing...it was a private business. There are alternatives for gays, aren't there?

Like I said, I'm struggling with this because it doesn't seem right, really. If I opened a women only spa, would I be forced to allow men? Or vice versa?

If you replaced gay with black in your posting would you feel the same way?

 

[cloudy]

If you replaced gay with black in your posting would you feel the same way?

I don't know...like I said, I'm struggling with it.

eta: after thinking about it (and here come the flames), yeah, I'd feel the same. Would I like it? No, of course not, but legally? I think he has the right to run his business as he sees fit. Like I said, it's not a physical store that he's keeping anyone out of, it's a service that he's offering.

If my vet chooses only to treat dogs but not cats, that's his choice.

If my cosmetologist chooses only to work on women, that's his or her choice.

You see what I'm getting at?

Even hetero people are turned down by that site. Should they sue, also?

I had my own house/business cleaning business for awhile, and I had the right to turn down any client for any reason, because it was a service I was offering, not a physical product.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

CLOUDY

More important, can he discriminate against mental patients and convicted felons and drug addicts or HIV positive patrons? Can he cull patrons for any reason?

How long before LIT is forced to become family friendly or appease blue-noses?

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

SANDY

Its not about blacks, is it?

You can substitute any group you want in place of gay, and some of them are gonna offend damn nearly everyone but themselves...and scare away your clients.

I've told this tale before, but back when Kosovo was hot a local agency sponsored refugees from that place. Well, these people were worse than the goddamned Clampetts about building a fire on the front lawn to boil laundry and roast goats. The agency didnt house these people with the Trailer Trash Crackers who do the same, they put them in nice neighborhoods.

 

[Liar]

If you replaced gay with black in your posting would you feel the same way?

or with non-black?

http://www.blacksingles.com/
http://www.executiveafrican-americandating.com/

 

[sr71plt]

So an Internet firm specializing in placement of newly minted doctors with community practices should also feel compelled to place newly barred lawyers? I don't think so. E-Harmony is doing this, I think, because the TV ads by competitors on its nonacceptance instances is hurting its business/reputation. I don't see it as under an obligation to do this--just as long as it doesn't try to force other enterprises from providing the service at the same time that it won't.

 

[Liar]

Or hey...

http://allthingslesbian.net/?CID=AllThingsLesbian

I'm not a lesbian. Lawsuit ahoy?

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

No. A lawyer was on tv talking about how they forced E Harmony to see the light.

 

[Liar]

Point I'm trying to make is this: It's OK to be exclusive, to offer just one service that is of interrest mainly to one demographic. If a gay man wants to register to find a woman to date, I'm sure he's free to do so at E-harmony. If he's honest about his sexual preferrence, I doublt he'll have much use of the service though.

I should be allowed to open up a barber shop and only do afros. If a white dude comes in sporting a mike muffler like it's 1979, more power to him.

 

[Stella_Omega]

So an Internet firm specializing in placement of newly minted doctors with community practices should also feel compelled to place newly barred lawyers? I don't think so. E-Harmony is doing this, I think, because the TV ads by competitors on its nonacceptance instances is hurting its business/reputation. I don't see it as under an obligation to do this--just as long as it doesn't try to force other enterprises from providing the service at the same time that it won't.

Absolutely. Here's the free market in action-- it does work, in some cases.

 

[cloudy]

Point I'm trying to make is this: It's OK to be exclusive, to offer just one service that is of interrest mainly to one demographic. If a gay man wants to register to find a woman to date, I'm sure he's free to do so at E-harmony. If he's honest about his sexual preferrence, I doublt he'll have much use of the service though.

I should be allowed to open up a barber shop and only do afros. If a white dude comes in sporting a mike muffler like it's 1979, more power to him.

Exactly the point I was trying to make, thank you.