Posted on 07/01/2016 10:53:00 PM PDT by lowbridge
The owner of online dating site ChristianMingle.com has agreed to let gay and lesbian users search for same-sex matches under a judge-approved settlement of discrimination claims.
Two gay men filed class-actions claims against Spark Networks Inc. in California courts in 2013 alleging that ChristianMingle.com and several other sites in the company’s portfolio of niche dating services excluded users looking to meet singles of the same sex.
ChristianMingle, billed as the largest online community for Christian singles, required new users to specify whether they’re a man seeking a woman or a woman seeking a man. The lead plaintiffs, two gay men who tried using it, claimed that the limited options violated California’s anti-discrimination law.
Known as the Unruh Civil Rights Act, the state law requires “business establishments” to offer “full and equal accommodations” to people regardless of their sexual orientation.
Under the agreement, the gateway homepages now ask just whether a user is a “man” or a “woman.” Spark Networks agreed that within two years, it would adjust other searching and profile features to give gay and lesbian singles a more tailored experience.
The terms approved by a state judge on Monday also apply to other Spark sites — including CatholicMingle.com, AdventistSinglesConnection.com and BlackSingles.com — that had operated in the same way.
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I tuhink you are on to something. Was having a family discussion last night on why “they” are out of the closet to begin with. Hetero’s aren’t in the habit of announcing where they stand on the sexual proclivities chart. So why is it Homosexuals are all into announcing for all to hear and see. Especially now that it can mean muzzi attention that surely would be unwanted. We didn’t reach any earth shattering conclusions but I have always maintained “they” will someday regret the out of the closet decision that has turned into displays also better left undisplayed, like the “pride parade” movement.
True Christianity is being driven underground; this persecution is separating the wheat from the chaff. ChristianMingle just joined the chaff; they are now in the company of any “Christian” leaders who have downplayed God’s punishment of Sodom and Gomorrah or tried to dilute the message in that divine punishment...
“If they’re saved, though, sooner or later it’s going to come home to them that “gay” is the wrong way to get love,”
??????? If they’re saved????????
Excuse me, they aren’t saved. They are an abomination to God and are mocking him with their depraved sexual acts. In order to be forgiven, they have to repent. By continuing to have gay sex, they prove that they are unrepentant.
All these supposed gay Christians and these supposed gay pastors or ministers are able to fool God? To make a fool out of God? Good luck with that.
Galatians 6: (NIV)
7 Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows. 8 Whoever sows to please their flesh, from the flesh will reap destruction; whoever sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life.
destruction = hell (not saved), eternal life = heaven (saved).
naive much? Gays aren’t gay for “love”, they are gay for the deviant, disgusting, depraved, aberrant, immoral SEX!
WHAT??? There's no option of "Other"??? Lawsuit pending . . .
When do they have to add sheep and goats?
Don't laugh, because that is on the agenda. Gay is becoming a de-facto protected class. The churches will be forced by court ordered to perform gay marriages, to hire gay ministers/teachers/staff.
This is forcing satanism/paganism onto Christians.
No freedom of thought—no freedom of religion in this nation anymore.
Total fascism—forcing satanism (irrationality and removal of our Constitution (Natural Law Theory/Objective Truth/God’s Laws) from the Nation
...led by the Satanists on the “Supreme” Court of the USA——lol.
Total irrationality of Fichte where kids are forced to believe “snow is black”. Free Will (choice) is TOTALLY removed from children in our Marxist system of programming (brainwashing/Common Core/Satanism) (there is no Mind—thinking outside their box—allowed). Total control of Thoughts.....so very evil and unconstitutional.
It is simply Mind Control—and it is being aimed at your children.
this is not my world, I'm just a poor wayfaring stranger passing through...on my way home...
FMCDH(BITS)
Have you ever committed a sin? Will you commit sins in the future?
Does that mean you are not saved?
Why should you not apply that token to other currently misbehaving, ignorant people? God treats you as you treat others, in parallel circumstances.
This is not the unforgivable sin. For some reason (commonly self righteousness — not the righteousness imparted by God) people hammer on it like it was the unforgivable sin. It’s notorious — even pagans used to understand it was very evil — but not unforgivable.
Salvation is a promise entered into. It is not an instant perfection, though it is a present hiding of sins in the completed payment of Christ. I stand on the word of God and guarantee you that you (if saved, which I hope is the case) and I both still have rottennesses in us that only the grace of God has kept from throwing us totally sprawling. That won’t cease to be the case, though their extent will keep on diminishing, until we pass through the pearly gates.
I won’t excuse you, one bit.
Well it’s trying to do so.
But we need better than philosophization about Natural Law Theory and the like. You don’t come as a savior to us or even with news of a savior to us.
Jesus Christ does come as a Savior to us. It’s up to us whether to embrace — and accept.
We should wish this was the worst martyrdom to come to Christians in the future.
Your scripture quote (scroll back for reference) does not back up your assertion. Not in the case of those who have accepted the promise, even if they misbehave between then and going to heaven.
It does warn, however, of the danger of loss to their reward... and likewise, to your reward. Sexual perversion is not the only way of sowing to the flesh. Self-pride and early judgment is another way of doing so.
What a bunch of crap.
I personally would have closed the site down if it were me than allow open sin into my midst but that’s just me.
Yep, things like if you aren’t a devout Christian you can’t run for office. We need to seek ways to take rights away from those on the left. Just fighting them from attacking us isn’t good enough. The left really doesn’t deserve freedom.
They nust need a faggot tab on their website
Well, then to be clear it’s really NO LONGER a Christian website other than in NAME only.
I think it’s genetic. Gay people, real gay people, not just sexual opportunists, are an evolutionary anomaly to help take care of the family, as the pro creators need help.
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