Under an agreement with New Jersey's Division on Civil Rights, eHarmony will create a same-sex dating Web site — "Compatible Partners" — and pay $50,000 in administrative costs.
Eric McKinley, who filed a "discrimination" complaint against eHarmony three years ago, gets $5,000 under the settlement.
The new site and eHarmony will maintain individual matching pools and registration information. As a result, users of the two sites cannot be paired.
So-called "nondiscrimination" laws — like the one in play in New Jersey — could force more businesses like eHarmony to cave to the gay agenda.
"It’s basically the power of the government being used to force people across the country to accept beliefs that they know are not moral," said Kelly Shackelford, president of the Free Market Foundation and chief counsel of the Liberty Legal Institute. "It’s an attack on freedom, and people better get ready to fight."
eHarmony — which claims 236 of its members marry every day in the U.S. — agreed to ensure that same-sex users will be matched using the same or equivalent technology used for its heterosexual clients. Its matching system, however, is based on research involving heterosexuals.
A similar lawsuit against eHarmony is pending in California.
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