Comments on: The straight date http://www.paulsoncoletti.com/blog/legal/the-straight-date/ Sat, 22 Oct 2011 00:16:48 +0000 hourly 1 By: Jeff http://www.paulsoncoletti.com/blog/legal/the-straight-date/comment-page-1/#comment-531 Jeff Thu, 08 Jan 2009 21:04:59 +0000 http://paulsoncoletti.com/blog/?p=184#comment-531 I agree with what Ya says above. And I don't think that any court/gov't etc. has the right to make a private company customize their website for gays or straights, etc. (I am gay, btw.) However I think that citizens have every right to sue that company if they wish. And in suing that company they may simply be bringing that company's practices to the attention of the larger public, gay and straight. In this way, they bring the issue to the court of public opinion. My understanding is that eHarmony settled out of court. In the end I wonder if they did so because they realized it would be continued bad press for them, alienate their straight customers, and eventually hurt their bottom line. That would be my guess, in which case I think that the desired outcome was reached, at least from my point of view. :) I agree with what Ya says above. And I don’t think that any court/gov’t etc. has the right to make a private company customize their website for gays or straights, etc. (I am gay, btw.) However I think that citizens have every right to sue that company if they wish. And in suing that company they may simply be bringing that company’s practices to the attention of the larger public, gay and straight. In this way, they bring the issue to the court of public opinion. My understanding is that eHarmony settled out of court. In the end I wonder if they did so because they realized it would be continued bad press for them, alienate their straight customers, and eventually hurt their bottom line. That would be my guess, in which case I think that the desired outcome was reached, at least from my point of view. :)

]]> By: Ya http://www.paulsoncoletti.com/blog/legal/the-straight-date/comment-page-1/#comment-470 Ya Tue, 25 Nov 2008 10:19:18 +0000 http://paulsoncoletti.com/blog/?p=184#comment-470 (Can't get in, then start your own dating site) What a stupid lawsuit. I am a lesbian. I am sometimes turned off by dating websites that are only for heterosexuals... BUT there are plenty of websites for the LGBT only (lesbian, gay bisexual, transgender) community. Most of these sites do NOT have options for HETEROSEXUALS to to be matched up. So, is that discrimination too? For that matter,I belong to clubs that are only for lesbians. I would hate to think that some heterosexual man (or a homosexual man, or straight woman)is going to sue the club because he/she couldn't membership. Hello, it's a lesbian club. ----- Same thing with Christian clubs and dating sites. A Christian club, should not have to accept someone into the club who goes against the religious beliefs of the Christian club. Enough with watered down religions. Should a Christian preacher with his own church have to accept a Jewish rabbi as a "co-preacher" so he doesn't get sued for religious discrimination? Should a Bhuddist monk have to accept a rabbi as its leader, so it doesnt get sued. (Can’t get in, then start your own dating site)

What a stupid lawsuit. I am a lesbian. I am sometimes turned off by dating websites that are only for heterosexuals…

BUT there are plenty of websites for the LGBT only (lesbian, gay bisexual, transgender) community. Most of these sites do NOT have options for HETEROSEXUALS to to be matched up. So, is that discrimination too?

For that matter,I belong to clubs that are only for lesbians. I would hate to think that some heterosexual man (or a homosexual man, or straight woman)is going to sue the club because he/she couldn’t membership. Hello, it’s a lesbian club.

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Same thing with Christian clubs and dating sites. A Christian club, should not have to accept someone into the club who goes against the religious beliefs of the Christian club. Enough with watered down religions.

Should a Christian preacher with his own church have to accept a Jewish rabbi as a “co-preacher” so he doesn’t get sued for religious discrimination? Should a Bhuddist monk have to accept a rabbi as its leader, so it doesnt get sued.

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