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Christian Mingle, other religious dating sites must now serve LGBT singles
Washington Times ^ | By Kelsey Dallas

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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TOPICS: Evangelical Christian; Moral Issues; Religion & Culture; Religion & Politics
KEYWORDS: christianmingle; dating; homosexualagenda; lgbt
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To: SeekAndFind

This isn’t about “non-discrimination”, it’s about the destruction of Judeo Christian Western Civilization.


61 posted on 01/03/2019 11:57:04 AM PST by Eagles6
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To: SeekAndFind

Liberalism destroys all it touches.


62 posted on 01/03/2019 11:59:24 AM PST by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: Terry L Smith

They should start a site for people that seek potential reproductive partners. Is it discriminatory to say that an XX female can only create a baby with a XY male?


63 posted on 01/03/2019 12:01:55 PM PST by mongrel
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To: SeekAndFind

Anybody know if there are gay “dating” (quick sex) sites? Do they have sections for normals? I’m betting they don’t.

Do bearded savage “dating” sites have sections for non-m*slims?


64 posted on 01/03/2019 12:02:41 PM PST by I want the USA back (There are two sexes: male (pronoun HE), and female (pronoun SHE). Denial of this is insanity.)
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To: I want the USA back

RE: Anybody know if there are gay “dating” (quick sex) sites?

There used to be Craigslist, but I don’t know whether it is still there.


65 posted on 01/03/2019 12:03:42 PM PST by SeekAndFind (look at Michigan, it will)
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To: SeekAndFind

Another lawsuit demanding a product be created for them.


66 posted on 01/03/2019 12:51:46 PM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: SeekAndFind

Why do they go after the Christian dating sites when they have sites for the LGBT community? Zoosk, Match, Elite Singles, and others, cater to the gay community. This has nothing to do with meeting people. It has to do with destroying another Christian based business that never planned to cater to this crowd and has not stopped them from getting their sites in their way.

This is why Burger King doesn’t have a wine list. They don’t cater to that meal.

rwwood


67 posted on 01/03/2019 12:51:48 PM PST by Redwood71
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To: SeekAndFind; akalinin
Remember: The Democrats could control all three branches of government anytime.

That would be #NotMyGovernment.

68 posted on 01/03/2019 1:10:47 PM PST by an amused spectator (Mitt Romney, Chuck Schumer's p*ssboy)
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To: scrabblehack

I just canceled my eharmony account with 3 months remaining. Scam (IMHO). I was getting matches, but no activity. I emailed them complaing they were using fake/abandoned profiles. Of course, no reply. Getting back to the subject at hand. Good grief. If the gays and other LGBQZXY people want to stay in their zone, why don’t they just start their own dating site! This is just more displacement of God from our society. So much for a free country. I can’t believe I served honorably for over 2 decades to see us devolve into this mess. But then again, I might have been prophetic back in 1993 when I said this country is definitely finished the day they let gays openly serve. (That was during the time Clinton tried to open the service to them. A very tumultuous time in the service).


69 posted on 01/03/2019 1:14:27 PM PST by Deepeasttx
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To: notaliberal
FreeRepublic is California based!

OK, one good thing from CA.

70 posted on 01/03/2019 1:19:00 PM PST by Major Matt Mason (Any lover of big government is an enemy of freedom, including the GOPe.)
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To: SeekAndFind; All
"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."

What’s worse? Activist state actors who violate the Constitution’s Section 1 of the 14th Amendment (14A) by abridging rights that the states have amended the Constitution to expressly protect, 1st Amendment protected religious expression in this example, …

… or citizens with religious convictions who evidently don’t know 14A and consequently can’t protect themselves from Christian-harassing state actors?

From the 14th Amendment:

Note that anti-free speech activists at UC Berkeley recently settled on a 14th Amendment-related case.

UC Berkeley settles landmark free speech lawsuit, will pay $70,000 to conservative group

In fact, patriots with religious convictions who value their constitutionally enumerated protections should consider that Acts 22:25-29 shows that Paul used his Roman citizenship to save himself from being flogged.

But as patriots can see from Section 5 of 14A above, until patriots elect a Congress that will actually do its job to make penal laws to discourage state actors from abridging constitutionally enumerated protections, the corrupt Congress is going to let anti-Christian activist states continue to get away with harassing faith-living patriots imo.

Insights welcome.

71 posted on 01/03/2019 1:24:12 PM PST by Amendment10
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To: SeekAndFind

Why would a gay person want to date a morally straight Catholic?


72 posted on 01/03/2019 1:26:39 PM PST by jughandle (Big words anger me, keep talking.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Dating sites, even so-called “Christian” ones, aren’t any better than singles bars. They are skanky and subject to all kinds of abuse and dishonor God.


73 posted on 01/03/2019 1:36:15 PM PST by fwdude (Forget the Catechism, the RCC's real doctrine is what it allows with impunity.)
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To: irishjuggler

If you remember, the presumably “Christian” matching site E-Harmony was similarly sued over a decade ago in NJ by another homo and they likewise capitulated. I now call them “E-Sodomy.”


74 posted on 01/03/2019 1:38:06 PM PST by fwdude (Forget the Catechism, the RCC's real doctrine is what it allows with impunity.)
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To: Eagles6
This isn’t about “non-discrimination”, it’s about the destruction of Judeo Christian Western Civilization.

As if dating sites epitomize Judeo Christian Western Civilization.

75 posted on 01/03/2019 1:50:14 PM PST by fwdude (Forget the Catechism, the RCC's real doctrine is what it allows with impunity.)
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To: SeekAndFind

I have problems with this on so many levels...

Not a big fan of dating websites in general. While it can bring two people together who may not have otherwise found each other, the potential for harm - emotional, physical, and financial - is so great it gives me pause. Yes, those problems exist for people meeting in traditional venues, but the online matching gives predators easier access.

That being said, a private organization should be able to limit it’s membership in anyway it likes, especially if there are other alternatives offering substantially the same thing. Fraternities should be able to admit just men, as long as Sororities offer a similar experience for women. Since there are dating sites that cater to homosexuals, I cannot see how they can force a dating site that caters to heterosexuals, especially considering the very nature of the web site.


76 posted on 01/03/2019 2:17:34 PM PST by Crusher138 ("Then conquer we must, for our cause it is just")
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To: mongrel

They will just say that xx and xy are racist terms, or say that is unsettled science.


77 posted on 01/03/2019 2:40:16 PM PST by Terry L Smith (.)
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To: JoSixChip
Doesn’t anyone stand thier ground anymore? This is a christian site, homosexual behavior is un-christian.

It's all about money anymore. Even Christians are inveigled by the love of it.

78 posted on 01/03/2019 2:49:16 PM PST by fwdude (Forget the Catechism, the RCC's real doctrine is what it allows with impunity.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Do not doubt that sodomites and their compliant politicians WILL demand that churches do their bidding and “marry” same-sex sodomites. It is just a matter of time, and that time is getting short.


79 posted on 01/03/2019 2:58:45 PM PST by fwdude (Forget the Catechism, the RCC's real doctrine is what it allows with impunity.)
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To: Major Matt Mason

Another thing! Did you ever notice that California is always in the top 3 donor states $upporting FreeRepublic?


80 posted on 01/03/2019 3:26:09 PM PST by notaliberal (St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle,)
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