Have you seen those ads for eHarmony? Are you single and gay and thought you might like to try a dating service? Well, tough.
eHarmony is a bigoted anti-gay organization with ties to Focus on the Family. They were created for exclusively as a Christian dating site, a fact not mentioned in their television advertisements. There is currently a movement to get the pro-gay Bravo cable network to stop broadcasting eHarmony ads.
The rationalization for excluding gay people has changed over time. At first, eHarmony said they didn’t want to alienate their core audience, Christian religious conservatives. Then, in another excuse, they claimed that Bayesian statistics don’t work for gay people. Or, a spokewoman claims complete ignorance of the gay community is the cause of the discriminatory policy. Currently, eHarmony’s excuse is that gay marriage is illegal, and they wouldn’t want the company to associate with illegal activity. Stay tuned for more shifting morality.
Luckily, there is another alternative: Chemistry.com. Their television ad is priceless… “Nope! Still gay!”. Note that I don’t want to censor eHarmony, or force them to change their business model. Instead, I hope that Chemistry.com buries those fuckers as a lesson to other hateful bigots that if they want to exclude millions of people from their services due to sexual orientation, they should go out of business.
love-sex-seekers, so really, homosexuals need to conduct themselves in a slightly less juvenile manner and just leave eHarmony alone. If advocates want to try and get Bravo to drop eHarmony commercials, that's fine. But attacking the site itself... just not necessary.The eChemistry ads however, are quite entertaining.
I'm not mad at the company's stance as much as their weak and changing rationalization of it. If they said in their televsion ads "no gays need apply" I would be cool with that (and I have no problems with or www.christiansingles.com or www.singlesoffaith.com, for example).
But eHarmony's feeble excuses combined with the lame attempt at hiding their religious agenda is sick. Fuck them... fuck them hard.
eHarmony does more good for single people than bad, and, whatever their ties to other organizations may be, they should be recognized for the positive contributions they do and not villified for perceived negative (non)contributions.
eHarmony is afraid of lawsuits? Are you *really* saying that? Or are you just trying to insult me? Goodbye Jeddite... please don't post any more bullshit on my page.
mudcub> feel free to delete this if I'm feeding a troll you don't want fed.
it's a known hate group.
Sandals bugged me, because my old company used to often give vacations out as a raffle prize, and I knew that if I ever won, I wouldn't be able to go, and that sucked. So, hooray for Sandals, hooray for Cracker Barrel (http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1589/is_2003_Feb_4/ai_97175008/pg_1), and here's hope that eHarmony get sold to someone who feels like running it as a business instead of a personal religious crusade.