eHarmony Go Gay – Outsi the Beltway

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. ”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.

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

"We've suffered om the ntentns of that topic, " Warren said, who add that wasn't about beg anti-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 Christian -founr of the popular datg se eHarmony is no stranger to sparkg ntroversy the lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT), however, Neil Clark Warren has gone even further, sayg he's "tired" of the same-sex marriage bate and what he perceiv as s negative impact on eHarmony.

” It seems his pany's cisn to lnch a separate service for gay and lbian sgl lled Compatible Partners rponse to a lawsu filed agast eHarmony 2008 for not offerg LGBT matchmakg brought along s own set of challeng. "I have said that eHarmony really ought to put up $10 ln and ask other pani to put up money and do a really first class job of figurg out homosexualy, " he also noted.

EHARMONY GO GAY

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.