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If you hear about gay Christian online dating for the first time, then you should be very glad. Finally there are dating websites for gays. Actually, about 48% of gays and lesbians are Christians and have a deep devotion to God. Their sexual orientation doesn’t stop them from having faith in God and live by Christian. ChristianMingle.com will open its 16 million-member site to gay and lesbian users following an anti-discrimination lawsuit. According to a settlement approved by a California judge last week, the.
Dating website ChristianMingle has settled a lawsuit and now will accept same-sex searches. Previously, the site only allowed women to search for men and men to search for women.
A class-action suit was filed in 2013 by two gay men against Sparks Networks Inc., the owner of ChristianMingle and several other dating sites. The suit alleged that the sites were in violation of California's anti-discrimination law.
Two gay men filed class-actions claims against Spark Networks Inc. in California courts in 2013 alleging that ChristianMingle.com and several other sites in the company’s portfolio of niche dating services excluded users looking to meet singles of the same sex.
ChristianMingle, billed as the largest online community for Christian singles, required new users to specify whether they’re a man seeking a woman or a woman seeking a man. The lead plaintiffs, two gay men who tried using it, claimed that the limited options violated California’s anti-discrimination law.
Known as the Unruh Civil Rights Act, the state law requires “business establishments” to offer “full and equal accommodations” to people regardless of their sexual orientation.
Under the agreement, the gateway homepages now ask just whether a user is a “man” or a “woman.” Spark Networks agreed that within two years, it would adjust other searching and profile features to give gay and lesbian singles a more tailored experience.
Personally, I think this is all a bit insane. ChristianMingle does not have a monopoly on the dating website market. There's no shortage of dating sites and apps that people can use to find same-sex partners, and there's even a good number of sites for Christian gays to find a partner. (Given the pool, one would think a person would probably have better luck finding someone on one of those sites than ChristianMingle, but I digress.) ChristianMingle is based on Christian beliefs, and a good number of denominations consider homosexual acts to be sinful. It seems rather petty to force a company to change their beliefs rather than simply find (or, heck, start) an alternative dating site.
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Dating site ChristianMingle.com will soon allow users to search for same-sex matches, courtesy of a 'judge-approved settlement of discrimination claims,' the Wall Street Journalreported on Thursday.
Under the terms of the settlement, the outcome of a lawsuit filed in California against dating site operator Spark Networks Inc. in 2013 by two gay men who claimed the company's refusal to provide same-sex matches constituted discrimination, Christian Mingle and other sites operating under the company's purview will simply ask whether users are men or women. The settlement also requires the company to introduce features to Christian Mingle making it easier for gay and lesbian users to find others on the site.
Other sites covered by the settlement include CatholicMingle.com, AdventistSinglesConnection.com and BlackSingles.com, the Journal added. According to a version of the settlement posted to the Journal's web site, Spark will pay out $9,000 to each of the plaintiffs and $450,000 in legal fees to the firm representing them.
The settlement appears to have struck a nerve in the right-wing media, with BizPac Review deeming the change a 'terrible blow — yet another attack on liberty,' and Red State opining the courts had been 'Attacked By LGBT Activists And Suffers The Consequences.'
On Friday, Christian Mingle's Facebook page posted an article with the headline 'Why a Test of Faith is Something to Be Thankful For,' accompanied by the caption 'Trials are never fun, but it's helpful to know that God is working through them.'
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However, lawyer for the plaintiffs Vineet Dubey argued the exclusion of same-sex matches was a clear violation of California's anti-discrimination laws.
'I am gratified that we were able to work with Spark to help ensure that people can fully participate in all the diverse market places that make our country so special, regardless of their sexual orientation,' Dubey told the paper.
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