eHarmony caved. That is the only word I can think of — caved. Instead of taking their chances with a lawsuit and standing up for their rights as a private business to offer services to whomever they choose, eHarmony’s leaders caved and have decided to allow homosexuals the opportunity to sign up for and find matches on their site. Don’t get me wrong. This is not an anti-gay post. Seeing as I am dating a woman that would be hypocritical of me. This is a post about the rights of businesses to serve or not serve whomever they choose.
So here is some background. eHarmony was the subject of a lawsuit brought on by a gay man who was upset that he could not go onto the site and find true love. Granted there are many other dating sites online such as Yahoo! Personals, Match.Com, Chemistry.com, not to mention the scores of specifically gay and lesbian dating sites. Instead of facing a jury, eHarmony settled and will be creating ‘Compatible Partners’ a companion site to eHarmony for gays and lesbians. I think it is wrong that we live in a culture that we can force private businesses to do what we want through litigation or the threat of litigation.
If I run a business and decide not to provide my services to someone based on anything then I should have that right not too. Sure it may hurt my business, but that is my decision. Are all the gay dating sites going to start letting straight people put up their profiles and look for love? I doubt it, and I doubt it is an issue. There are dating sites for people of color, for Christians etc. There is even one for so-called beautiful people. What now? A lawsuit from an ugly person wanting to be on the beautiful people site? A Satanist suing to be able to be on the Christian site? I don’t see this as discriminatory. I see this as private business being run as such and serving a select clientele. That is their right. That should not be taken away.
Businesses need to stand up for themselves. Government needs to quit getting involved unless the business is violating laws and people need to put on their big girl panties and deal with it. If a business doesn’t want to serve you because you are gay, black, Atheist, short, tall, male, female, etc., take your business elsewhere. As Americans we have the freedom to patronize or not patronize a business for whatever reason. Use the power of dollars not the power of the courts. That is capitalism.
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It would be a much better use of energy to stop suing private businesses for discriminatory business practices and focus on the State and Federal governments denying basic equal rights. I don’t care if a gay man can’t find love on eHarmony. I do care that gays cannot marry if they choose because churches have forgotten that we have a separation of church and state because of past persecution. I care that the persecuted have become the persecutors. That’s where people need to focus their efforts.
Agreed; I find the whole silly. Focus on equal rights on the state level and businesses will follow. I still believe 90% of America has no real issue with being gay or marriage it’s the loud mouthed 10% religious nuts who are retarded about the whole thing.