eHarmony Blog.com“eHarmony does not reject gays—it simply doesn’t accept them” —Newsweek
Minyanville, an educational and entertaining resource on finance (featuring “Bear” and “Bull” market mascots), includes eHarmony among its list of 10 companies with faith in its business models. The commentary is snide:
While the idea that there might indeed be gay scientists is horrifying, one can be certain that none were employed in the development of eHarmony’s patented matchmaking algorithm – though Warren did attempt to distance himself from Focus on the Family in 2005.
Oh, product placement, how subliminal your message is! Observant viewers were confused, but LGBT reporters were quick to catch on eHarmony’s Big Plan:
The Boston Globe writes about CompatiblePartners, set to open 20 days from now, asking ManHunt.net and Lovetastic.com why gay site services is a niche product, but eHarmony’s service isn’t.
“I think that most people are aware of the history of it,” Norbauer said of why eHarmony created Compatible Partners. “I think it’s going to be quite a hill to climb for them.”
I doubt eHarmony is worried. If no one from the gay community signs up, the company will be right where it started.
One of resident techies predicts what Compatible Partners would be.
March 31, the deadline given by the terms of the settlement agreement between eHarmony and the New Jersey Attorney General for starting to provide same-sex matching, is fast approaching.
Meanwhile, the placeholder page on the URL http://compatiblepartners.net/ hasn’t changed one bit. In fact, peeking at the HTML of that page tells me the “submit” button doesn’t do anything.
[JP and Amanda Duffy, an eHarmony success couple whom we quoted and discussed with on the One-Night-Stand article last April, and former US solicitor-general Ted Olson give the Wall Street Journal an interview.]
by Dale Buss, WSJ, dated 27 November 2008
Amanda Brophy and J.P. Duffy met on eHarmony.com in 2006. Each appreciated the dating site’s dedication to facilitating long-term relationships — and the Christian background of the founders. Mr. Duffy, media director at the Family Research Council in Washington, and Ms. Brophy, an art teacher from Annapolis, Md., married last fall.
But now the Duffys are disappointed with eHarmony.com because the Pasadena, Calif.-based company just capitulated to an anti-discrimination lawsuit and agreed to launch a separate site aimed at matching homosexuals with suitable partners. A gay match-seeker in New Jersey filed a complaint, and the state’s attorney general found probable cause that eHarmony had violated New Jersey’s nondiscrimination statute.
“EHarmony’s success didn’t come from its slick advertising campaigns,” said Mr. Duffy. “It was their high moral standards, because they rose above the ‘hook-up’ mentality of their competitors, and because they were openly helping people find marriage partners.” Mr. Duffy is hardly alone among Christian conservatives in his disappointment with eHarmony.
The complaints among this group are twofold. First, there is the concern that homosexual activists have succeeded in taking a private business hostage. Why should eHarmony have to serve every type of clientele? Do Jewish dating sites have to serve Christians? Can meat-eaters demand a hamburger at vegetarian restaurants? Full article at WSJ
From the Family Research Council, dated 20 November 2008:
The surest way to lose the culture war is refusing to fight. Unfortunately, no company illustrates that better than eHarmony, whose shocking concession to the homosexual movement is sending tremors through the faith community. In New Jersey, a man named Eric McKinley filed a complaint against the dating service, arguing that its website discriminated against homosexuals by not offering same-sex matching. When the state’s attorney general pressed eHarmony about its policy, the company surrendered on the spot. Instead of fighting New Jersey’s unreasonable demands, eHarmony collapsed under the intimidation. In a settlement reached out of court, Neil Clark Warren’s enterprise agreed to cover $50,000 in administrative costs, pay McKinley $5,000, and give free six-month memberships to the first 10,000 homosexuals who register.
To those of us in the pro-family movement who hailed eHarmony’s commitment to the virtue of traditional marriage, the company’s actions are distressing and damaging. Even legal experts on the Left agreed that McKinley didn’t have a case since Warren, as the owner of a private company, has a right to keep lawful limits on his clients. What’s worse, there were plenty of ways for the site to resolve the issue and keep its policy intact. For instance, eHarmony could have simply refused to service the state of New Jersey. Instead, Warren conceded significant moral ground, opening the door to a wave of attacks on other dating sites like catholicmatch.com.
Please join us in expressing your disappointment by emailing customerrelations@eHarmony.com or by calling 800-951-2023. Let them know how troubling it is that a company once so bold in its mission to establish “successful heterosexual marriages” is now actively participating in the assault on the true meaning of sexuality.
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I bet it's a matter of time before bashers start making fake profiles to lure out and hurt us, like the Craigslist killer. I never consider anything that targets and outs gay people a good thing at this point in civilization. There's just too many rednecks and bigots out there still who's minds will …
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