Posted on 11/22/2008 10:58:00 AM PST by andrew roman
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 deemed racist and questioning global warming is akin to denying the Holocaust, none of that matters.
In the depraved spirit of obsessive sameness and parity, the tremedously successful website e-Harmony, a matchmaking service that was setup and designed to target Christians (uh oh), has agreed, i.e., was forced, to create another website, at the behest of the New Jersey Attorney General, to accommodate gays looking for love.
Yes, this is America, and they’re being made to do it.
It will be called “Compatible Partners.”
Score another one from outside the arc for those who cultivate a tyranny of equality.
Exactly how this differs from some young lady choosing to file suit against “Men’s Warehouse” for not stocking bras and panties, or an eighty year-old man deciding to take “Babies R Us” to court for not providing wheelchairs and hearing aids for the eldery escapes me.
As Joshua Rhett Miller of Fox News explains:
Created as part of a settlement with Eric McKinley, a gay man from New Jersey, the Web site will provide services for users seeking same-sex partners by March 31, New Jersey Division on Civil Rights Director J. Frank Vespa-Papaleo said.
eHarmony, which was founded by Dr. Neil Clark Warren in 2000, said the settlement was triggered by a Law Against Discrimination complaint filed by McKinley against the online service on March 14, 2005. As part of the agreement, eHarmony will pay McKinley $5,000 and will provide him a one-year complimentary membership.
The first 10,000 users to the new site - which will be completely separate from e-Harmony - get complimentary six-month subscriptions.
Cha-ching!
Man, who can I sue? Whose business can I torpedo?
There is a sick fixation – a mania - on the Left to make everything in this society the same. They have found a deep moral purpose in creating – or engineering - fairness at the expense of liberty. That’s because at the core of the American leftocracy is the belief that liberty is trumped by equality. They care about leveling out playing fields, sparing feelings, and having government make decisions for the people. That way, presumably, no one is ever offended, made to feel left out or insulted.
Ever.
In the name of tolerance and uniformity, there is a systematic crippling of uniqueness.
It is decidedly un-American. (You heard me, Keith Olbermann).
The e-Harmony case - which boils down to government compelling a privately owned business to invest its legally acquired profits in creating a good or service that “doesn’t discriminate” – is as clear a paradigm of the tyranny of equality as one can muster.
That one homosexual man can take whatever resentment (or prejudices) he harbors toward Christianity – a conclusion drawn based on the conspicuous absence of litigation filed by Mr. McKinley against all-gay, all-Jewish, all-cockroach dating services - and conscientiously attack and disrupt a business model that has proven tremendously successful (and legal) is beyond pathetic. Remember, there are dozens and dozens of same-sex dating sites out there. This one man, however, chose to feel isolated from a service targeted to more traditional patrons – and he ultimately got his way.
Narcissism at its grizzly best.
The many kowtow to the one.
The tyranny of equality.
Leftists see and measure equality in terms of outcome. Their “scale of equivalence,” if you will – their barometer of fairness - is placed at the end of any given societal circumstance. Measurements are taken. They appraise the imbalances as they see them, and then they act - often through protests, cries of unfairness, litigation and name-calling. Eventually, these waa-waa, knee-jerk convulsions of bias and discrimination become normalized through the heavy hand of government intrusion and manipulation – just the way they like it. The liberties of others – as in the e-Harmony case - are often stunted to finagle their much-coveted “equality."
Nothing is more important.
Conservatives, by contrast, look to the Declaration of Independence, and the foundational credo that all men are created equal. (Note the word “created.”) Their own “scale of equivalence” is placed at the beginning of it all – not the end - where equality of opportunity is paramount. This propagates the freedom and liberty this nation is based upon.
The great Michelle Malkin began her column yesterday this way:
Congratulations, tolerance mau-mauers: Your shakedown of a Christian-targeted dating website worked.
Of course it did.
The “shakedown,” as she most accurately portrays it, of so many of the traditions and institutions that define the United States is in full swing – all perpetrated under the pretext of shattering innate social injustices that sit at the core of American society.
In the lead-up to Election Day, for example, California airwaves were saturated with anti-Proposition 8 ads with language like this:
“It is time we call Prop 8 for what it is – an unnecessary and discriminatory proposition that would treat thousands of Californians differently under law.”
What about "mens" and "ladies" rooms? Or handicapped parking spaces? Aren’t those illustrationss of laws that discriminate? How about progressive tax rates? Wouldn’t that be an example of regulations that call for treating a specific group of people differently?
Please.
My kingdom for a scintilla of critical thought from the Left.
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"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
But the American people are about “fairness”, “diversity”, “equality”, “civil rights”, “democracy”, etc., not know that their application can lead to Stalinism.
We never should have forced private companies not to discriminate. That is their perogative, in my opinion. There is no compelling moral reason why private companies should be forced to provide services that they don’t want to deserve. Yeah, I said it. I don’t care about private segregation.
I don’t care if no one wants to provide gays with anything. The market will punish them, if they deserve to be punished. There is no compelling moral reason why private companies should be forced to provide services that they don’t want to provide. If consumers are missing something, someone will rise to provide it for them. Why? Because they want a profit, damnit!
Can I hear an AMEN.
EXACTLY.
Well said.
Andrew Roman
Brooklyn, NY
Sometimes, to settle is to surrender.
“Conservatism is never about equality. It is about freedom. Any one who does not grasp Edmund Burke’s objections to the French Revolution does not understand conservatism. The love of equality ultimately leads to despotism.”
I agree. And I’ll go further:
If all men had in reailty been created “equal”, that truth would be so self-evident to all that it would never have been necessary for Jefferson to set forth the notion within The Declaration of Independence.
One of the hardest and most important truths of life that I’ve recognized is that people are NOT “equal”, and are in fact very UNequal. A a conservative, I must accept truths “as they are”, not as we wish they could be.
America as a free society became great precisely because we did not force equality of outcome. Forcing such outcomes in the name of “diversity” will destroy us.
I do not have problems with “inequality”. As a matter of fact, I prefer it.
- John
I believe that very few have grasped what is happening in America 2008 A.D. What we are seeing is a coup by various groups that previously were outside our Western Civilization. They were outside for varoious reasons; moral, alienage, religion etc. These groups have now formed a coalition-in some instances the “treaties” have been reduced to writing-to support each other. These coalitions are of sufficient number so as to out vote us. The goal is the complete replacement of Westerners in positions of control with the resultant wealth transfer. Right now they are winning.
On an hourly basis we are forced to assimilate with people we choose not to, when the Constitution protects our right to associate with whom we please.
Tom Anderson said,”Free men are not equal and equal men are not free.”
I think what “all men are created equal” means is that all men are equal under the law and all men have a equal chance to better their lot in life.
https://www.cbmw.org/Journal/Vol-5-No-1/Revisiting-the-Idol-of-Equality
It was about gleefully poking their finger in the eye of Christians by forcing them to do something against their beliefs.
Maybe some Constitutional lawyer out there can address that issue.
>> In the name of tolerance and uniformity, there is a systematic crippling of uniqueness.
New schisms will form despite the anticipated homogeneity - such is the force of Nature.
There is a big difference between egalitarianism and equality.
E-Harmony NEVER should have given in on this one and I will not recommend them any more.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Exactly, this is why "Civil Rights" trump individual rights. If someone does not want to serve blacks at their diner, they should not have to. They would then suffer the consequences of no one wanting to eat at their diner, but it is their choice.
One of the roots of this problem of our loss of liberty, is the artificial definition of commercial property. I reject the idea completely. Either property is public or private. Those wanting to regulate commercial property are responsible for our loss of liberty.
Government school is the instigator of this coup. It instills a host of anti-values in the popular mind: “diversity”, “tolerance”, and other vacuities mentioned in the above posts. These vacuities are made-to-order rationalizations of the everyday monstrosities that school forces upon people, and they double up as useful tools for enemies active in the adult world.
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