A couple of years ago some guy decided to sue eharmony.com, a couples matching website, because they didn't cater to gays and lesbians. You could only get matches for people of the opposite sex, and according to the lawsuit this was "discrimination".
Fast forward to today...
To make a long story short, eharmony finally settled with the New Jersey attorney general's civil rights division, by establishing a gay and lesbian site. Not only that, but they have to pay $50,000 in court fees, and $5,000 to the guy that sued them!
Ridiculous.
eharmony is a private business/website. They have the choice to cater to whatever demographic they want to, and whatever demographic they feel will be the most profitable. Forcing them to cater to gays and lesbians would be like forcing a vegetarian restaurant to cater to meat eaters, by making them serve steaks and burgers. The most ridiculous part is that eharmony established a separate website to handle their gay and lesbian customers, called "Compatible Partners".
Unbelievable.
If you're suing for equal rights, shouldn't it be part of the existing website and not separate?
I Googled "gay dating", and on the first page I had no less then eight gay and lesbian dating websites. Why is this guy wasting his time forcing eharmony to cater to gays? If this guy wants to date other gay people online then he should take his business to someone else! That's the best part of being an American consumer; if I don't like what a business offers, I am free to take my money to the next business that offers what I am looking for.
I have no idea how the judge and court system even let this go through. I'm going to start suing every one of those gay specific websites because they don't cater to my heterosexual desires. (Sounds absurd, doesn't it?)
Here's a link to the story:
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2335035,00.asp
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2335035,00.asp
