RW Christians provide disHarmony for eHarmony

Back in 2005, Eric McKinley sued eHarmony for violating New Jersey's anti-discrimination law.   The matchmaking mega site, after doggedly refusing to provide equivalent services for gay and lesbian customers, recently reached an out-of-court agreement with McKinley and the NJ attorney general's office.  Although eHarmony founder Dr. Neil Warren would admit no wrongdoing in the settlement, he did consent to set up a separate - er, segregated - site called "Compatible Partners" to accommodate the state's LGBT individuals.  He also paid $5,000 to McKinley. 

Needless to say, Warren's decision has been denounced by social conservatives who love to portray themselves as victims of an omnipresent "Gay Agenda."  Peter LaBarbera at Americans for Truth sent a letter of outrage (as all his letters are) to Dr. Warren accusing him of damaging the cause of religious freedom.  "You could have set an example to Christians and freedom-loving Americans everywhere by fighting on principle for your company’s First Amendment right not to be bullied into submission by a politically correct state bureaucracy.  Instead, you capitulated!"  (ProPup hasn't wasted many bytes on Porno Pete; he's the guy who dresses up as a leather fetishist and goes "undercover" to S&M events, supposedly to expose their wickedness.  Butt plugs, we presume, are optional.)  J.P. and Amanda Duffy, who met on eHarmoney back when it was a "godly organization," now accuse eHarmony of promoting nasty one-night stands:  "eHarmony has assisted thousands of couples in building strong marriages. However, this goes beyond eHarmony's corporate reputation."  (Duffy works for the so-called Family Research Council.)  From the ever conservative Wall Street Journal:  "eHarmony has spent millions of dollars battling attempts by homosexual litigants to force it to cater to them."  (Not just litigants, but those dastardly homosexual litigants!)  Wingnut columnist Michelle Malkin writes, "This case is akin to a meat-eater suing a vegetarian restaurant for not offering him a rib-eye."  (Not exactly, Mal - unless you're equating cow flesh to a living breathing human being.)  On the O'Reilly Factor, sister wingnut Laura Ingram has been braying that eHarmony is being persecuted for its Christian beliefs.  (Where would evangelicals be without their persecution complexes?)  And on and on and on and on... 

As unpleasant as all this is, we expect these shrill fundies will soon tire of ce nouvel objet de leur indignation.  After all, there's a War on Christmas coming up!