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CHRISTIANMGLE NOW ALLOWS GAY DATG, AFTER A LAWSU
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As a gay Christian, he felt ught between two worlds. The experienc n lead LGBTQ Christians to feel “eher too gay for Christian spac or too Christian for gay spac or queer spac, ” Evers told Relign News Service. RELATED: Calv Universy’s first openly gay stunt body print pav a path.
Men n now check out men, and women n search for women, on the relig datg se ChristianMgle, which prevly sanctned only heterosexual se opened to gay ers after settlg a lawsu that claimed that vlated California’s non-discrimatn the new search functn likely won’t prove very eful to gay men or women — the se now lets them view profil of the same genr, but do not specifilly show them fellow gay ers. “My sense is that a fair number of gay Christians will probably not be terted simply bee they’re not terted givg money to a pany that has to be forced by the urts to serve them, ” Gay Christian Network Executive Director Jt Lee lawsu, acrdg to Christiany Today, argued that ChristianMgle vlated California’s non-discrimatn law that prohibs for-prof pani, such as Spark Networks, which owns ChristianMgle, om discrimatg agast ctomers on the basis of sexual orientatn, among other an email to The Washgton Post, Spark Networks said has no plans to advertise the se to gay Christians, or to go further to make the se work for gay or bisexual ers.
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“It hurts my Lord and hurts my reputatn as a hband, father, pastor and the reputatn of my church to stay on the advisory board, ” he six remag members of the advisory board listed on ChristianMgle’s webse did not rpond to The Post’s requts for are gay Christians out there lookg to date each other who uld be a market for a datg se, said Benjam Mann, the print of Queer for Christ. The District-based group has 350 members who meet up at events, but Mann don’t anticipate those gay Christians will be on ChristianMgle any time soon.
”Right now, Mann and Lee said, most of the gay Christians they meet at their anizatns’ nferenc and events e secular s like OKCupid. “Some of the apps that exist, pecially for gay men, tend to get a reputatn for beg more for hookups than for relatnships.
For a lot of gay Christian men pecially, there n be a kd of uneasy relatnship wh those apps, where they want to meet people, but not to be seen as lookg for a hookup, ” Lee said. Mann add that an openly Christian profile on a gay datg se — like his, which says he is semary — tends to surprise most gay men, and not a good Spark Networks or another pany created an app tailored to the Christian LGBT muny, they say, there would be a more stori about fah?