eHarmony Forced to Set Up Gay Dating Site

Madeline Holler — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 21:26:00 GMT

The option for gays to stay at home to find a date have just broadened. A New York judge ruled that eHarmony, on the of the big players in online dating, must also facilitate hook-ups for gays and lesbians.

Love it.

The company eHarmony said it will launch the new same-sex dating site, named "Compatible Partners," by March 31.

From Yahoo!:

The settlement was the result of a discrimination complaint filed by Eric McKinley against eHarmony in 2005, which will be dismissed under the settlement agreement.

Recall, eHarmony was founded by evangelical Christian Dr. Neil Clark Warren and it also had ties to James Dobson's Focus on the Family (which is having a bunch of financial problems right now ... just putting that out there).

So now that we can't legally discriminate against gays for dating services, surely -- SURELY! --discrimination against gays who want to get legally wed can't be far behind.

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Dating Desperation: Single Parents Go Online

Karen Murphy — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 14:23:00 GMT

Single parent? Why hello, that's me! Dating? Er, not exactly (hushed whisper: "it's complicated"). But if I was, apparently I'd be taking up more than my fair share of bandwidth in the online dating arena. Yep, match.com and eHarmony were made for people like me. Uh, or so they say.

Why the trend to online dating for single parents? I can boil that right down for you:

We haven't the strength or energy left after being a parent for anything more, and we so are not interested in wasting our time, so why not winnow out the losers with a few clicks? (can you do that? the winnowing? hmm...)

And it so makes sense. So much that, even though only about 5% of all parents are single, single parents represent more than 16% of total online daters. Maybe it's easier getting certain things out of the way that way, crushing issues people might have right up front, laying everything out there for all to see. Or maybe people are being more circumspect online, crafting personae to fit the occasion.

Anyone want to weigh in on this with your own experience? I'm all ears.

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eHarmony Forced to Set Up Gay Dating Site

Dating Desperation: Single Parents Go Online