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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Doesn’t the first SCOTUS decision and the “bake us a cake” decision cover thus?
You are 100% correct.
Why would anyone start a dating site in the U.S.? Isn’t there a nice Polish or Hungarian hosting company that can put the owner out of reach of these parasites?
The easiest way for a large organization to deal with a lawsuit like that is to shut down, stop paying lawyers to defend the lawsuit, file for bankruptcy, and sell off its assets for $1.
Whatever happened to no shirt, no shoes, no straight, no service?
Hope you’re right. But they’ve go 90%+ support where it counts...damned liberal judges.
Just another advancement from the lbgtq activists to “radically transform” the country. They have the money, strategy and courts on their side. One thing is certain, they won’t stop there. Not until they have torn down every traditional value. Retreat is the common response now. When all the targets have been neutralized, and all that’s left are people with”outdated values”, they will be the targets.
One of their sites is LDSSingles (Latter Day Saints singles), so they’re not really Christian, anyway. Mormons, though many of them are wonderful people, are NOT Christians. It’s good to know they caved, though. I imagine they’ll seriously lose some clients, now.
One of their sites is LDSSingles (Latter Day Saints singles), so they’re not really Christian, anyway. Mormons, though many of them are wonderful people, are NOT Christians. It’s good to know they caved, though. I imagine they’ll seriously lose some clients, now.
> Why did they have to go along if the baker doesn’t have to bake the cake? <
That baker won his Supreme Court case. But the ruling was narrowly crafted, and did not give the wide religious exemption that many were hoping for.
So the state of Colorado continues to harass him (to this day). Now it’s over some cake a transgender wanted. And I suppose that the baker’s legal fees will eventually bankrupt him.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/39555/colorado-christian-baker-court-again-time-its-over-hank-berrien
Spank Network?
really?
Christian Mingle was started by the same people who founded JDate (Jewish dating site).
Fine. Make a separate section just for Gays so everyone else knows to stay away from that section.
“the Grindr app on cell phones is specifically set up for quick homosexual encounters. “
A friend of mine is gay and he says that is a quickest method to get robbed or killed.
I thought that this was settled since the leftist Human Rights Commissions went after EHARMONY a few years ago.
Luckily, you and I don’t get to make that decision or that would be true.
Easy for you to say.
Everyone is a big mouth when it comes to the Leftist Human Rights Commission juggernauts that isolate and marginalize people and businesses.
I dont see you or any other conservatives fundraising and protecting this business from attack
Or conversely, fundraising and helping this business pay its employees and support the families as they close down.
Big mouths.
I’m offended that the site requires applicants to state male or female. The trans people and non-sexuals should sue.
See what happens when you start down this road?
One would think.
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