Isn't it obvious that people should be able to date who they want and specify their preferences on a dating site?
In the next paragraph, Ayres criticizes eHarmony for not facilitating homosexual relationships.
Whaaaa! Eharmony didnt fix my life!
eHarmony also takes $50 from white people and refuses to match them with black people, so the argument is moot.
Should we just allow the government (or Rev. Moon) simply assign us spouses? Nothing could be more fair than that... </sarc>
People of any race are treated the same - they are matched with people that have similar preferences.
If they can’t find anybody on the site, tough luck. I’m white and an “eHarmony reject”.
They should be prohibited from discriminating on the basis of race, sex, religion, age, marital status, or physical appearance. Customers should simply post that they are available and then go out with whatever man or woman gets randomly selected for them.
The only problem is that the government won't be able to extract any tax revenue from eHarmony after it quickly goes out of business.
There used to be a Constitutional right of the people peaceably to assemble, which meant that you could assemble with whoever you wanted.
That right apparently got written out of the Constitution around the same time that the "separation of church and state" and "emanations from the penumbra" provisions got added.
Well, the author fails to understand that it was completely legal to have “separate but equal” well after any Civil War legislation.
Just ask racist Southern Democrats for what they were allowed as legal into the 1960’s.
The author is ignorant.
I’d be getting laid 10 times a week if I wasn’t particular about race, sexual orientation, intelligence level, drug use, number of teeth and favorite team in the Southeastern Conference. It just so happens that I am particular about all of those things.
eeeewwwwwHarmony?
Wrong. It treats them exactly the same -- it takes their $50 and asks (in the survey) their race. It's not like if one answers 'black' one is refused.
“written by a professor at the Yale law school.”
I would have never guessed that Ian was a professor at a law school. His premise is just plain ignorant and the arguments they are making about e-harmony are just foolish. However, professor or not, a liberal is ignorant and foolish, so no real surprise there.
I say you should be able to screen by any criteria you want, its your money and life or have I fallen asleep and Hillary won and we have to date whomever the government picks.
Simple answer - the screening selection should be made by the person submitting their personal choices, but that person should include their own status within that classification. For example, “ 6 ft. 8 guy seeking female 5 ft 4 or shorter who enjoys wearing a collar and leash.”
Interesting, the attacks on EHarmony.
First from the homosexuals because there is no homosexual matches
Second from the black community because people are permitted to choose race, which happens at most other dating sites.
What will the next victim group be?
EHarmony has a Christian perspective.
It is fair game.
If you are paying an Internet company to do your job for you, you shouldn’t be surprised if they cut corners in the interest of efficiency. ;)
Since when did we lose the right to choose who our partner may be, you know, the right to free association? I thought my law school was terrible when it came to teaching Constitutional Law, but it appears Yale now has it beat. A scary insight to what this strain of socialists would impose on us if they ever got control.
As a “white man” who prefers Latin and middle eastern women, I believe I am well within my rights to discriminate in choosing a mate.
However, once a match is found, and if a picture is supplied, dater 'a' doesn't have to choose to actually go on a date with dater 'b' if dater 'a' does not want to.
Think about it. eHarmony is a for-profit company that takes $50 from black clients and refuses to treat them the same (match them with the same people) as some white clients.
There's two different issues here from what I can see. One is that eHarmony allows clients to decide a racial preference and yet this author says that eHarmony is not treating blacks the same as whites by prohibiting them from choosing whites?
You can't say that allowing soemone to make their own choices is the same as prohibiting someone from doing something.