eHarmony Settles With Gay Activist Bullies
Already walking on real thin ice, after my good natured chiding of Barack Obama
for not turning out to be everything gays and lesbians had hoped for, and even suggesting that his nonaction was largely responsible for the defeat of Proposition 8, I am now about to take a dive which will likely result in no muff dives for the foreseeable future....
But here goes...
eHarmony
has settled a suit brought by a
New Jersey man alleging that the matchmaking service discriminated against homosexuals by operating a setup that did not extend searches to include partners of the same sex. A case brought by a lesbian in California
is still pending, but reports are eHarmony is seeking an out of court resolution.To say the least, our fundie friends are none to happy about this most recent capitulation in the culture war. And even though I am a culture war agnostic, I have to agree with them.
Why should eHarmony be required to match up gays and lesbians, anymore than Planet Sappho has to find dates for straight girls? And if I wanted to open up a hook up site for gay gun-toting libertarian girls would I have to accept applications from all the liberal dykes who can do nothing but huff O-phoria all day long.I just don't get it. Look, you don't go to a Chinese joint if you have a craving for Mexican chow. And should Playboy be forced to have beefcake centerfolds? Does Victoria'a Secret have to stock jock straps?
There are a multitude of online gay dating services. If a straight girl happened to stumble in looking for the man of her dreams, they would tell her to get lost—they just don't have anyone to match the chick up with. But, as far as I know, though I suppose it is bound to happen someday, no offended straight girl has ever gotten all Nanny Pants about it.
There are tons of sites specializing in hooking up people of all kinds of various tastes and interests—even pot smokers. No one is suing them—but gay activists can not help themselves.At one level the concern about eHarmony is absurd and ridiculous, but it also troubling.
If we are honest about it, the social conservatives have not been very successful in imposing their narrow brand of Christianity on the nation. Abortion, sodomy, and pornography are now all constitutional rights, and that same constitution also prohibits praying in public schools. Same sex marriage and civil unions are well on their way to becoming the law of the land, though they got a tiny temporary setback with Proposition 8.
For the most part, other than these lost causes, all the religious right wants is to be left alone, worship their god, homeschool and spank their kids—and maintain their virginity until eHarmoney selects a suitable mate.
These people are not really all that powerful. I can get pornography on my laptop, and if I drive a couple miles I can purchase enough
sex toys
to fill the trunk of my car. If my daughter got pregnant the school, without notifying me, will arrange for an abortion. However, if she takes an Advil with her to school
she will be expelled after first being strip searched.
Well-meaning Liberals bullies are the real liberty killers:Seat belts, motorcycle helmets, bicycle helmets,smoking, car emission inspections, transfats, banning fast food restaurants, saying a prayer at a public school graduation, photo ID here, photo ID there, etc.—not to mention seizing a huge chunk of our hard earned wages.
More and more laws are being passed to "protect" us…from…us. Roadblocks, checkpoints and random stops are now de rigueur here in the land of the free. Kinda reminiscent of Nazi Germany.
And that comparison is not over the top. One of the first wars against the ravages of tobacco was waged by the
Third Reich. Nazi Youth manuals proclaimed that "nutrition is not a private matter!"But in America we are fast forgetting what freedom means. I guess a lot of people want the government "experts" to take care of us--since we are all so stupid and helpless.
Its too bad-- for liberty is found in the small joys of life
And now liberal gay activists are demanding that the government force eHarmony to unite the gays and lesbians of America because it is the right thing to do--even though no gay or lesbian will use the service.
eHarmony is a creepy fundie organization founded in 2000 by Evangelical Christian Dr. Neil Clark Warren and had strong early ties with our friends at Focus on the Family.
Why shouldn't eHarmony have as much right as I do to start an online dating service dedicated to pairing up tomboys who live in their daisy dyke short shorts?However, I do console myself with the hope that the successful conclusion of these lawsuits will somehow bring an end to the nauseating Natalie Cole sing-along eHarmony adverts.
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