Gay Christian Mgle: A Story Of LGBT Send Adolcence - Believe Out Loud

Contents:

• CHRISTIANMGLE NOW ALLOWS GAY DATG, AFTER A LAWSU
• CHRISTIANMGLE WILL MAKE BIG, PRO-GAY CHANGE AFTER LAWSU
• CHRISTIAN MGLE NOW PERMS GAY MATCHMAKG, AFTER SE
• GAY CHRISTIAN MGLE: A STORY OF LGBT SEND ADOLCENTS

CHRISTIANMGLE NOW ALLOWS GAY DATG, AFTER A LAWSU

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. Then shows them the profil of ers of the other sex, but lets them swch to same-sex profil if they several other datg s, which specifilly show gay ers the profil of fellow gay ers, a lbian who search ChristianMgle for women now would end up mostly viewg the profil of straight women.

Same for a gay ’s clearly not ial for gay or straight ers: “Nobody wants to have to search through a bunch of profil of straight folks who are not terted you, ” Lee Networks said ChristianMgle has more than 16 ln ers. ”One of the pastors on the ChristianMgle advisory board parted ways wh the pany after learng would allow gay ers. “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.

CHRISTIANMGLE WILL MAKE BIG, PRO-GAY CHANGE AFTER LAWSU

”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.

CHRISTIAN MGLE NOW PERMS GAY MATCHMAKG, AFTER SE

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?

The " largt and fastt growg onle muny ” for Christian sgl will now allow gay and lbian ers to search for same-sex match followg a legal battle. Same-sex upl uldn't be matched through the se bee there was no optn for ers to register themselv as gay or lbian. In 2013, two gay men filed class actns claims agast ChristianMgle's parent pany, Spark Networks.

The men argued that Spark was breakg California's Unh Civil Rights Act, which requir bs to provi “full and equal acmodatns” to all patrons regardls of sexual orientatn, not permtg gay and lbian people to e s onle datg servic. Per a settlement, Spark agreed to allow ers to jt intify as a "man" or a "woman" on s homepag, and will also pay $468, 000 legal fe to the gay men who filed the su, acrdg to The Wall Street Journal.

GAY CHRISTIAN MGLE: A STORY OF LGBT SEND ADOLCENTS

The pany is also required to troduce new featur that will make easier for gay and lbian ers to search for others on the se. "Siarly, Christe Roselle, a wrer for nservative news outlet Town Hall, blasted the news, argug that ChristianMgle is "based on Christian beliefs, and a good number of nomatns nsir homosexual acts to be sful. ""There's no shortage of datg s and apps that people n e to fd same-sex partners, and there's even a good number of s for Christian gays to fd a partner, " she wrote.

Christian Mgle now perms gay matchmakg, after se.

This se unwrapped to homosexual ctomers after cidg a lawsu that said broken California’s non-discrimatn law.