{"id":24596,"date":"2016-07-07T05:45:06","date_gmt":"2016-07-07T09:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/?p=24596"},"modified":"2016-07-06T22:57:25","modified_gmt":"2016-07-07T02:57:25","slug":"christian-dating-sites-must-arrange-same-sex-matches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/2016\/07\/christian-dating-sites-must-arrange-same-sex-matches\/","title":{"rendered":"Christian dating sites must arrange same-sex matches\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p class=\"\">A California judge is requiring a company that operates Christian dating sites to provide its services to same-sex couples. \u00a0Affected are ChristianMingle.com, CatholicMingle.com, AdventistSinglesConnection.com, and BlackSingles.com.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><span style=\"color: #404040; line-height: 1.6;\">From <\/span><em style=\"color: #404040; line-height: 1.6;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mic.com\/articles\/147702\/christian-mingle-must-now-allow-same-sex-matches-following-discrimination-lawsuit\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Christian Mingle Must Now Allow Same-Sex Matches Following Discrimination Lawsuit<\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"\">Dating site ChristianMingle.com will soon allow users to search for same-sex matches, courtesy of a \u201cjudge-approved settlement of discrimination claims,\u201d the <i>Wall Street Journal\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/law\/2016\/06\/30\/christianmingle-com-opens-doors-to-gay-singles-under-settlement\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">reported on Thursday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"premium-content\">\n<p class=\"\">Under the terms of the settlement, the outcome of a lawsuit filed in California against dating site operator Spark Networks Inc. in 2013 by two gay men who claimed the company\u2019s refusal to provide same-sex matches constituted discrimination, Christian Mingle and other sites operating under the company\u2019s purview will simply ask whether users are men or women. The settlement also requires the company to introduce features to Christian Mingle making it easier for gay and lesbian users to find others on the site.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Other sites covered by the settlement include CatholicMingle.com, AdventistSinglesConnection.com and BlackSingles.com, the Journal added. According to a version of the settlement posted to the <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/public\/resources\/documents\/sparks_settlement_2016.pdf\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><i>Journal\u2019s<\/i>\u00a0web site<\/a>, Spark will pay out $9,000 to each of the plaintiffs and $450,000 in legal fees to the firm representing them.<\/p>\n<p><em style=\"color: #404040; line-height: 1.6;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mic.com\/articles\/147702\/christian-mingle-must-now-allow-same-sex-matches-following-discrimination-lawsuit\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">[Keep reading. . .]<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote><\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A California judge is requiring a company that operates Christian dating sites to provide its services to same-sex couples. \u00a0Affected are ChristianMingle.com, CatholicMingle.com, AdventistSinglesConnection.com, and BlackSingles.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1281,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,39,41],"tags":[4295,4634,893,1870],"class_list":["post-24596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law","category-religions","category-sex","tag-anti-discrimination-laws","tag-christian-dating-sites","tag-gay-rights","tag-religious-liberty"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - 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