eHarmony Go Gay

Contents:

• 81-YEAR-OLD EHARMONY FOUNR ON GAY MARRIAGE AND TR
• NEIL CLARK WARREN, EHARMONY FOUNR, SAYS GAY MARRIAGE 'DAMAGED HIS COMPANY'
• EHARMONY GO GAY

81-YEAR-OLD EHARMONY FOUNR ON GAY MARRIAGE AND TR

Publicly, Warren — a clil psychologist, semary profsor and vout Christian — claimed that was bee he had no expertise when me to gay datg. In a 2013 terview wh CNBC, he lamented that his pany was forced to “put up a same-sex se” and said gay marriage “has really damaged our pany. ”“We lerally had to hire guards to protect our liv, bee the people were so hurt and angry wh , ” he said at the time, bee “Christian people” felt the pany’s gay datg se was “a vlatn to scripture.

NEIL CLARK WARREN, EHARMONY FOUNR, SAYS GAY MARRIAGE 'DAMAGED HIS COMPANY'

”Warren also suggted to CNBC that eHarmony vt $10 ln to “figure out” homosexualy, which he lled “at the very bt … a paful way for a lot of people to have to live. ”“This eHarmony ad brawash children and adults by sensizg them and nvcg them that homosexualy is natural, ” a statement on the One Milln Moms webse reads, “when realy is an unnatural love that is forbidn by Scripture jt like love rooted adultery is forbidn.

Gay marriage In 2005, the pany was sued for discrimatn of same-sex upl. To settle a lawsu, eHarmony 2009 lnched Compatible Partners, a se for gay and lbian sgl. "We've suffered om the ntentns of that topic, " Warren said, who add that wasn't about beg anti-gay.

EHARMONY GO GAY

"We didn't want to pretend to be experts on gay and lbian upl, " said Warren. "We're not anti-gay at all.. " Warren says the pany -- which s patented algorhm to nnect people based on 29 dimensns of patibily -- is now seeg succs matchg up gay and lbian sgl on Compatible Partners.

The datg se eHarmony is now openg a separate but equal se for gays. But attorney Theodore Olson, who issued a statement on the pany’s behalf, ma clear that did not agree to offer gay match willgly. The settlement, which did not fd that EHarmony broke any laws, lls for the pany to eher offer the gay match on s current venue or create a new se for them.

” One prum that, as a private bs, they’d be ee to ci how to n and gays are not generally regard as a protected class. Of urse, the creatn of a separate se for gays — even if ’s absolutely intil — will almost certaly lead to more sus the future. UPDATE: GayPatrtWt wonrs when a Christian will sue JDate, “The Leadg Jewish Sgl Network, ” and Michelle Malk suggts, “Perhaps heterosexual men and women should start filg lawsus agast gay datg webs and unrme their bs.