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eHarmony sued for excluding gays
Reuters via Yahoo ^ | 5/31/2007 | By Jill Serjeant

Posted on 05/31/2007 12:49:32 PM PDT by mmanager

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I believe they are upset because they don't have the "30 day free trial period".

This movement just keeps hammering away at every corner.

1 posted on 05/31/2007 12:49:33 PM PDT by mmanager
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Can’t I run my business the way I wish? No one is FORCED to use eHarmony.

And if there is a market for the kind of matchmaking they are suggesting, be an entrepreneur and start it up!


2 posted on 05/31/2007 12:52:11 PM PDT by trimom
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Private sites should be allowed to form their own rules as to who and who not to include for their service.

This is the principle of FREEDOM OF ASSOCIATION.

If the court allows gays into a service that does not in principle believe in this relationship imagine the repercussion for a site like FREE REPUBLIC. The administrators of this site can be sued by a liberal troll for banning him from this site.

If gays want their own dating and relationship service, they should create their own.


3 posted on 05/31/2007 12:52:14 PM PDT by SirLinksalot
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IMO, it’s valid for a private business to refuse service to anyone they choose, for any reason they choose. Only the government should be required by law to be fair.


4 posted on 05/31/2007 12:52:26 PM PDT by TChris (The Republican Party is merely the Democrat Party's "away" jersey - Vox Day)
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Great the state is going to sue this company on her behalf.


5 posted on 05/31/2007 12:52:37 PM PDT by ThisLittleLightofMine
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They shouldn’t exclude them. They should just set them up with a person of the opposite sex. This is like suing a store because it doesn’t carry the red dress you want in the right size. GO TO ANOTHER STORE.


6 posted on 05/31/2007 12:52:42 PM PDT by 3AngelaD (They've screwed up their own countries so bad they had to leave, now they're here screwing up ours.)
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It is time for businesses to figure out how they can make a profit by doing business everywhere except California. This sort of thing is just going to get worse and worse.
7 posted on 05/31/2007 12:52:51 PM PDT by gridlock (Fred Dalton Thompson will be the Next President of the United States)
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The next lawsuit to be filed will demand that in addition to “men seeking men” and “women seeking women” eHarmony will have to add an “other” option.
8 posted on 05/31/2007 12:54:24 PM PDT by MAexile (Bats left, votes right)
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E-Harmony will close the doors before they cave.


9 posted on 05/31/2007 12:54:32 PM PDT by ThisLittleLightofMine
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Did they have a “Men seeking farm animals” section?


10 posted on 05/31/2007 12:55:21 PM PDT by glorgau
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Maybe conservative Christians should insist gays hire them in their bathhouses.


11 posted on 05/31/2007 12:56:01 PM PDT by keats5 (tolerance of intolerant people is cultural suicide)
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You think? Why? I’m unfamiliar with the situation.


12 posted on 05/31/2007 12:56:05 PM PDT by listenhillary (We will never run short of pessimism and pessimists)
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If the plaintiff wins this suit, the next thing they will sue for is that eHarmony is not setting them up with same-sex partners who match their profile who were not seeking a homosexual relationship.

The same law that is being used in this case applies equally well to that scenario.


13 posted on 05/31/2007 12:56:15 PM PDT by gridlock (Fred Dalton Thompson will be the Next President of the United States)
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They don’t have a legal leg to stand on. How any court could force a private company to do business the way they don’t want to do, would be beyond me.


14 posted on 05/31/2007 12:56:48 PM PDT by farlander (Try not to wear milk bone underwear - it's a dog eat dog financial world)
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That wouldn't be fair to the poor unsuspecting member who got set up with the queers.

From now on, I demand all vegetarian restaurants to serve steak!!!

15 posted on 05/31/2007 12:57:22 PM PDT by Millee (Tagline free since 10/20/06)
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What if the owner of E-Harmony was born with a propensity to reject sodomites?


16 posted on 05/31/2007 12:57:51 PM PDT by keats5 (tolerance of intolerant people is cultural suicide)
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They already have laws against discrimination for rentals in my area.

That’s pretty much a business.


17 posted on 05/31/2007 12:59:27 PM PDT by listenhillary (We will never run short of pessimism and pessimists)
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To: SirLinksalot

They have their own publication such as Bay Windows and The Boston Phoenix. The dating ads are in the back next to the psychiatric ads.


18 posted on 05/31/2007 12:59:55 PM PDT by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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Crimany...AREN’T THERE ALREADY ENOUGH gay escort services and Datelines for lesbians on the WEB without them having to act ugly and pound the heck out of an organization try to serve the rest of us?


19 posted on 05/31/2007 1:00:43 PM PDT by rovenstinez (Ma)
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Is there a gayHarmony.com? Heteros should sue them.


20 posted on 05/31/2007 1:00:43 PM PDT by Alouette (Vicious Babushka)
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