Guess eHarmony doesn't offer their services to everyone

eHarmony sued in California for excluding gays By Jill Serjeant Thu May 31, 7:10 PM ET LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The popular online dating service eHarmony was sued on Thursday for refusing to offer its services to gays, lesbians and bisexuals. A lawsuit alleging discrimination based on sexual orientation was filed in Los Angeles Superior Court on behalf of Linda Carlson, who was denied access to eHarmony because she is gay. Lawyers bringing the action said they believed it was the first lawsuit of its kind against eHarmony, which has long rankled the gay community with its failure to offer a "men seeking men" or "women seeking women" option. They were seeking to make it a class action lawsuit on behalf of gays and lesbians excluded from the dating service. eHarmony was founded in 2000 by evangelical Christian Dr. Neil Clark Warren and had strong early ties with the influential religious conservative group Focus on the Family. It has more than 12 million registered users, and heavy television advertising has made it one of the nation's biggest Internet dating sites. The company said the allegations of discrimination against gays were false and reckless. "The research that eHarmony has developed, through years of research, to match couples has been based on traits and personality patterns of successful heterosexual marriages," it said in a statement. "Nothing precludes us from providing same-sex matching in the future. It's just not a service we offer now based upon the research we have conducted," eHarmony added. According to the lawsuit, Carlson, who lives in the San Francisco Bay area, tried to use the site's dating services in February 2007. When she was denied access, she wrote to eHarmony saying that its anti-gay policy was discriminatory under California law but the company refused to change it. "Such outright discrimination is hurtful and disappointing for a business open to the public in this day and age," she said. Carlson's lawyer Todd Schneider said the lawsuit was "about changing the landscape and making a statement out there that gay people, just like heterosexuals, have the right and desire to meet other people with whom they can fall in love." Carlson's lawyers expect a significant number of gays and lesbians to join the class action, which seeks to force eHarmony to end its policy as well as unspecified damages for those denied eHarmony services based on their sexual orientation. http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070531/...armony_gays_dc

I'm not really sure what to say or think. There are gay-specific Personals, but eh.

No company should be forced to cater to one group or another.

No company should be forced to cater to one group or another.

Right. Their company is based off of studies done on heterosexual couples, which would most likely not apply to homosexual couples. How hard is that to understand?

It's like suing tampax for not making tampons for guys.

Bah. Who cares. Cry me a river.

JT hahahahahaha

Shut the fuck up.

but dey do have Manpons....

u put them in ur butt after eatin like 45 hot wings incase u p00p

What the fuck?

Stupid bull dyke.

Look out for a lawsuit, Sovereign!

I'll have to contant SA.com's lawyer immediatly!

It's like suing tampax for not making tampons for guys.

I guess the difference would be that tampax doesn't say that you or I couldn't use them... correct? Maybe I use the for nosebleeds?

Well even if eHarmony did allow gays to use their service, I doubt they would get much use of it.

eHarmony offers heterosexual matches. A homosexual obviously wouldn't benefit from being matched with someone of the opposite sex. I'm sure they could feel free to be, but I don't think they would be very satisfied.

Homosexuals want eHarmony to alter their services to cater to homosexuals as well. While that's fine as a request, it's a stupid demand, and I would guess there's nothing legal that's binding eHarmoney to cater their services to them as well.

eHarmony is just being given free publicity to the millions of gay-hating heterosexuals out there =P

I think that it has nothing to do with them discrimiating. Eharmony is a business, i thought? Well, they want to make money. They jus thavn't got the right testing done to let the gays match up with eachother.

And in the commercials, they show males+females together, i dont think they want to put gays in the commercials.

Put lesbians in it and watch profits soar.

Absolutely.

Actually, a lot of straight girls find that nasty. But for the guys,

In fact,

my girlfriend always jokes about having 3 somes with other chicks.... like she wanted me to walk over to her friends house because she was there and it was like 3 and a half miles away, and she said "If you come over here, me you and erin can have a threesome"

Which, was great for me, but I didn't go.

Too far of a walk for some puss, and I'm pretty sure it was a joke.

Considering the ties with Focus on the Family, etc., they probably are going to be making sermons.

It's their business. Apparently the profit incentive isn't enough.

getting sick of gays forcing everyone to accept them.