Posted on 01/03/2019 10:24:04 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Spark Networks Inc., owner of ChristianMingle.com, LDSSingles.com and other faith-based dating websites, will make its services more LGBT-friendly after settling a discrimination lawsuit filed by two gay men.
The dating sites previously “required new users to specify whether they’re a man seeking a woman or a woman seeking a man,” The Wall Street Journal reported. Now, people will simply sign-up as a male or female.
Additionally, “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 article noted.
The lawsuit focused on a California 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,” The Wall Street Journal reported.
Spark Networks did not admit wrongdoing as part of the settlement agreement, but “it did agree to pay each plaintiff $9,000 and cover the $450,000 they had accumulated” in legal fees, CBC News reported.
A representative for the company told The Wall Street Journal that leaders were “pleased to resolve this litigation,” but others are frustrated by the outcome.
“Twitter critics of the court decision are saying that it’s the result of a ‘bully verdict,’ an assault on religious liberty, or worse,” CBC News reported.
The settlement announcement comes at a time when anti-discrimination laws and religious liberty protections are repeatedly coming into conflict, such as on college campuses and in state legislatures.
Christian communities vary widely in their response to gay and lesbian relationships, according to data from Public Religion Research Institute. Fewer than 3 in 10 white evangelical Protestants (26 percent) support same-sex marriage, compared to 69 percent of white mainline Protestants, 58 percent of Catholics and 26 percent of Mormons.
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Gag!
Its tough on the homo’s these days since craigslist personals and backpages were taken offline.
By going into the dating business outside of your local church, as it once was, you opened the door for this to happen.
I’m sorry. Spark is only pretending to be Christian if they went along with this. If they had any integrity, they wouldn’t have settled. They’d have shut down before agreeing to promote same-sex coupling on their platform.
Pretty soon those sites will have gays up the wazoo.
What will the LGBTers do when users start putting #NoSodomites in their profiles?
Can’t Spark just relocate outside of Caligomorrah?
Do they still allow the Christian singles to PREFER dating males or females exclusively? Can you turn down a trans or bi?
Hell NO.
If PayPal, Facebook and Apple et al can ban Alex Jones, gun owners, Christians or any other political ideology they personally detest then a site catering to Christian relationships can ban homosexuals.
This is BS
Doesn’t anyone stand thier ground anymore? This is a christian site, homosexual behavior is un-christian. I’d say this is the end of for them.
...Diversity is an anti-religion, and anti-ideology, a nepotism which promotes everything except one's own family.
Diversity therefore equals the destruction of any and all religions and of all positive ideologies.
Because Diversity can only be destructive: whatever IS is insufficiently or inexactly diverse.
Whatever IS must therefore be destroyed in order to make it MORE Diverse.
And there is no conceivable or measurable end to it. Yesterday's Diversity is today's intolerable lack of Diversity.
Diversity is the destruction of Good; and it is the destruction of all types of Good - however defined. All are chewed up and spat out by Diversity.
Diversity is the promotion of chaos by the destruction of Good; and then there-naming of chaos as Good.
So wrong.
RE: Can’t Spark just relocate outside of Caligomorrah?
As long as they are in today’s America, there’s no safe haven. Remember: The Democrats could control all three branches of government anytime.
They were in trouble anyway, the Grindr app on cell phones is specifically set up for quick homosexual encounters.
This all points to the need for legislation that would guarantee the right of any business owner to set moral or religious standards within their place of business as dictated by their conscience and beliefs. Yes, there would be problems in both directions. We might encounter some liberal coffee shop with signs reading “Trump supporters not welcome.” Oh wait, that already happened. Should I sue for hurt feelings, or just be thankful that I was warned that the interior would be a nightmare of progressive memes.
I’m sure there are “dating” sites for homosexuals, although gay men are often just looking for quick sodomy. They just want to coerce approval from everyone. I’m sick of it!
Have the trannies sued for the right to misrepresent themselves on dating sites?
The judge. What is the f8going judge’s name?
Ahhh, California, the land of fruits and nuts. Nothing good comes out of that state at this point.
26 to 69 (sic) percent support amongst Christians?
They’ve won.
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