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The prominent online dating service eHarmony is facing backlash from the conservative Christian group One Million Moms for its recent LGBT-inclusive advertisement featuring a lesbian couple in a domestic setting.The commercial is part of eHarmony’s “Get Who Gets You: Warm Laundry” campaign, which, One Million Moms says, is “normalizing and glamorizing the LGBTQ lifestyle.” In the commercial, a lesbian couple is shown intimately lounging on a couch, their legs entwined and heads close together. As the laundry cycle completes, one of the women stands to collect the clothes while her partner sprawls on the bed. The scene continues with the...

The popular US dating site eHarmony is now owned by Munich-based broadcaster ProSieben. Although it is primarily known for its TV franchise, ProSieben also owns one of Germany’s largest dating companies. German media company ProSiebenSat.1 purchased the matchmaking site eHarmony in the company’s first major e-commerce deal since launching a joint venture with investment firm General Atlantic. The Munich-based broadcaster announced the takeover on Monday, with ProSieben CEO Max Conze calling the deal “an excellent fit.” ProSieben already owns German online dating giant Parship. Like eHarmony, Parship uses an algorithm to suggest matches for people from its database. Users also...

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Dr. Neil Clark Warren, former dean of Fuller Theological Seminary and founder of eHarmony.com, the dating website, has spent most of his life promoting "family values". A run through Dr. Warren's "29 dimensions of compatibility" however left this conservative befuddled. Reminiscent of the standardized personality inventories used by employers, eHarmony's screening session told me what I already knew about myself. What I didn't expect, however, was the notification at the end of the session that eHarmony had determined that, based upon my responses, I would NOT be a successful candidate for their product. What then followed was a free "personality...

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Even though, the day after it aired on the Super Bowl broadcast, the consensus on the Focus on the Family advertisement featuring former Florida quarterback and Heisman Trophy winner Tim Tebow was that it wasn't as bad as the left had feared, at least one person that isn't going to let it go. On MSNBC's Feb. 8 "Morning Joe," host Joe Scarborough made the point that the TV spot played during the Feb. 7 game was inoffensive and painted the opponents of it as being upset about nothing. "One other thing too, talking about the soft touch - Focus on...

A former eHarmony customer who objected to the company's new outreach to homosexuals but was denied a refund says the company now apparently is changing its response. The customer, who asked that his name not be revealed, told WND that a followup e-mail from the "eHarmony office of the president" confirmed that his account was closed and a refund was being processed as he requested. The issue arose when the dating service, which originally described itself as being founded on Christian principles of long-term husband-and-wife relationships, moved into the "gay" market with a new homosexual-oriented website called Compatible Partners. A...

When straights-only dating site eHarmony settled a suit with the state of New Jersey by agreeing to start up Compatible Partners, a sister site for gays, the solution seemed Solomonic to some (everyone got what they wanted) and like a sell-out to others (anti-gay Christians chafed that their religious liberties were being trampled). But what the move hasn’t done is clear up eHarmony’s legal problems: a second suit charges that by relegating gay dating services to a separate site, eHarmony is still discriminating. A class action suit in California that names both the site and its founder charges that creating...

The launch by dating service eHarmony.com of a new website for homosexuals is creating concern among customers who were attracted to the company because of its Christian foundations, but they're not getting any satisfaction. WND reported when eHarmony launched its new Compatible Partners website for homosexuals, the result of a settlement of a discrimination complaint brought in New Jersey. Compatible Partners has been put online by eHarmony following the case prompted by a 2005 complaint by Eric McKinley, a homosexual, who claimed eHarmony's heterosexual-only matching service violated the state's anti-discrimination law.

The homosexual community now has its gay dating web site, paid for by a Christian businessman. And an honorable man of biblical beliefs has been bludgeoned into submission by the scam of "tolerance" and "non-discrimination" and the judicial tyranny of a New Jersey state agency. In November, eHarmony.com, a Christian-based matchmaking service, was strong-armed by the state Civil Rights Division and agreed to set up (or see here) a parallel web site for gays. The agreement was made after the state agency acted following a lawsuit filed by a gay man, who said he felt discriminated against. Complying with that...

Early in November, the popular online dating company eHarmony settled with the New Jersey Attorney General's Division on Civil Rights (DCR) over allegations that the company violated the state's anti-discrimination law by limiting its matching service to heterosexual couples. In 2005, gay New Jersey resident Eric McKinley had filed a complaint with the state, and in July 2007 the director of the DCR issued a finding of probable cause that eHarmony had violated the statute. In the face of mounting legal costs and the risk of crippling civil and administrative liabilities--stemming not only from the New Jersey investigation but other...

The gay rights movement says it is about securing rights for homosexuals. They say they want what others have in our society. Fair enough, but is this really what gay rights are about in 2008 America? Last month in Arizona, California and Florida making gay marriage legal and accepted was on the ballot. In each case, the answer was “No.” In Arkansas the question of whether unmarried couples would be allowed to adopt children was on the ballot. The proponents of the measure were up front about their desire to use the new law to head off any future wave...

My syndicated column today expands on yesterday’s eHarmony post (link). As I note, eHarmony will be forking over $5,000 to the gay plaintiff and $50,000 to New Jersey’s Civil Rights office. Here’s the entire settlement the company agreed to, via onlinedatingmagazine. There’s more on the class-action lawsuit against eHarmony proceeding in California here. And Jacob Sullum weighs in. *** The eHarmony shakedown by Michelle Malkin Creators Syndicate Copyright 2008 Congratulations, tolerance mau-mauers: Your shakedown of a Christian-targeted dating website worked. Homosexuals will no longer be denied the inalienable “right” to hook up with same-sex partners on eHarmony. What a landmark...

If you take a moment and google the phrase “gay dating service” you’ll find that there is no shortage – companies like “Pride Dating,” “GayFriendFinder.com” and “Chemistry.com” all cater to matching up gays. Never once did it occur to me – or anyone else with a life – that there were hetereosexuals out there being unfairly deprived of a chance at love because these services offered no “straight” matchmaking. That’s because there are oodles of heterosexual dating services out there. Yet, in an age where defending the traditional definition of marriage is construed as hatred, criticizing a black candidate is...

Michelle Malkin wrote today that eHarmony, a Christian-targeted dating website, was recently sued by a gay man demanding that the business match him up with a same-sex partner. The New Jersey Attorney General intervened and forced eHarmony to change its entire business model on behalf of the gay plaintiff. Sadly, eHarmony has settled and will offer same-sex dating services on a new site. The only question now is- With the courts on their side, who's next?Will Single Muslim.com be forced to carry a gay option?This website is located in the USA.Do you think they will be targeted next? UPDATE:...

The Right Weighs In on eHarmony Settlement (Hint: They’re Not Happy)by Kilian MelloyEDGE ContributorFriday Nov 21, 2008 When eHarmony refused to list matches between men seeking men or women seeking women, other sites such as Chemistry.com stepped in with their ads reading, "Because I’m Gay?" and promised gay and lesbian customers that they, too, would get a fair shake at finding someone special through their services. But for new Jersey resident Eric McKinley, that was not a satisfactory alternative. McKinley wanted the same service from the same provider that heterosexual customers would get, so, in 2005, he filed suit. The state...

Congratulations, tolerance mau-mauers: Your shakedown of a Christian-targeted dating website worked. Homosexuals will no longer be denied the inalienable "right" to hook up with same-sex partners on eHarmony. What a landmark triumph for social progress, eh? New Jersey plaintiff Eric McKinley can now crown himself the new Rosa Parks -- heroically breaking down inhumane barriers to Internet matchmaking by forcing a law-abiding private company to provide services it was never created to provide. "Men seeking men" has now been enshrined with "I have a dream" as a civil rights rallying cry of the 21st century. Bully for you, Mr. McKinley....

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...

Internet-based match-maker, eHarmony has settled a lawsuit commenced against it by Eric McKinley of New Jersey. Mr. McKinley claimed that he was being discrimninated against because eHarmony does not provide gay matchmaking services. As part of the settlement, in early 2009, eHarmony will provide services for "men seeking men" and "women seeking women" all using its proprietary technology....As part of the settlement, eHarmony, Inc. will provide a free, one-year membership to Eric McKinley . . . . [and will] pay McKinley $5,000, .... and the Division on Civil Rights $50,000 to cover investigation-related administrative costs.