ChristianMingle loses lawsuit, must now include gay singles

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ChristianMingle loses lawsuit, must now include gay singles
By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times - Friday, July 1, 2016

 

ChristianMingle.com, an online dating service for Christian singles, must start allowing people to seek out same-sex relationships under a judge-approved settlement.

 

ChristianMingle only required new users to specify whether they’re a man seeking a woman or a woman seeking a man. Two gay men filed class-actions claims against the site’s owner, California-based Spark Networks Inc., claiming that the site’s limited options violated California’s anti-discrimination law, The Wall Street Journal reported.

 

State law requires businesses to offer “full and equal” accommodations and services to people regardless of their sexual orientation.

 

For now, ChristianMingle will only ask a user whether he or she is a man or woman. Spark Networks agreed that within two years, it would adjust other features to give gay singles a more tailored experience, the Journal reported.

 

The terms approved by a state judge Monday also applied to other Spark-owned sites that had operated in the same fashion, including CatholicMingle.com, AdventistSinglesConnection.com and BlackSingles.com, the Journal reported.

 

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http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/jul/1/christianmingle-loses-lawsuit-must-now-include-gay/

[HawkMan]

I'm all for equal rights and all, but this one doesn't make a lot of sense.

 

There's a ton of dating sites catering to specific sexual orientations, ethnicities, social status, sexual preferences and even kinks and everything else. 

 

Are all the gay dating sites now also forced to add in options for heterosexuals ? 

 

Granted in this case, a plain dating site for christians made no sense to be hetero only, either from a economic or practical point of view, as more users mean more money and there's a lot of gay christians as well.  

 

These niche market dating sites on't make a lot of sense either way as long as you can put in your info on a wider audience sites and filter your matches.