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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I knew years ago Christian Mingle was not sincere when their commercials constantly talked of finding your soul mate - that’s not biblical - though plenty of christians think it is.
I contacted CM about their use of “soul mate” in advertising and got back replies that let me know i was wasting my time and they are not concerned about christians except in making money off of them or luring them into false sense of security in using a dating site with christian in the name.
Do they still send you a slew of questions every time you get a potential match? As I say, I couldn’t be sure if the profiles were fake/abandoned or they didn’t like my answers.
No, I didn’t get a lot of questions with the matches they sent me. I would get about 50 matches a day. I would send a smile to about half of them. And out of that 25, I would have, maybe 1, view my profile. Then block me. After 3-4 months, I did not have a decent conversation with anyone (unless u count scammers. They were abundant on there). The problem with a site that don’t let you search yourself sucks. You never really feel ‘in charge’ of your own destiny on eharmony. If you get a 100% match that they send you, and it don’t work out, then it ain’t a match. Nobody pays attention to that. It’s photos first, then the profile in most people’s book. Before canceling, i had 600 saved matches on my homepage, with only 23 that viewed my profile, and 4 returned ‘smiles, and no return messages from any of them. BTW, POF asked the same ‘match’ questions and you can search and it was free.
Against God’s laws.
Good point. OTOH: None of the church girls wanted me because I was decent, honest, and moral (= “boring”).
That makes leftist heads explode.
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