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            <description><![CDATA[eHarmony settles with New Jersey Attorney General:

Coming soon to EHarmony &mdash; Adam and Steve.

The Pasadena-based dating website, heavily promoted by Christian evangelical leaders when it was founded, has agreed in a civil rights settlement to give up its heterosexuals-only policy and offer same-sex matches.

EHarmony was started by psychologist Neil Clark Warren, who is known for his mild-mannered television and radio advertisements. It must not only implement the new policy by March 31 but also give the first 10,000 same-sex registrants a free six-month subscription.

&ldquo;That was one of the things I asked for,&rdquo; said Eric McKinley, 46, who complained to New Jersey&rsquo;s Division on Civil Rights after being turned down for a subscription in 2005.

The company said that Warren was not giving interviews on the settlement. But attorney Theodore Olson, who issued a statement on the company&rsquo;s behalf, made clear that it did not agree to offer gay matches willingly. &ldquo;Even though we believed that the complaint resulted from an unfair characterization of our business,&rdquo; Olson said, &ldquo;we ultimately decided it was best to settle this case with the attorney general since litigation outcomes can be unpredictable.&rdquo;

The settlement, which did not find that EHarmony broke any laws, calls for the company to either offer the gay matches on its current venue or create a new site for them. EHarmony has opted to create a site called Compatiblepartners.net.

Warren had said in past interviews that he didn&rsquo;t want to feature same-sex services on EHarmony &mdash; which matches people based on long questionnaires concerning personality traits, relationship history and interests &mdash; because he felt he didn&rsquo;t know enough about gay relationships.

Okay.&nbsp; I understand this is an issue of equal public accomodation in it's thrust.&nbsp; What I fail to understand is why is the solution to force eHarmony to build a business entity it's owners aren't comfortable with?&nbsp; eHarmony settled rather than go through litigation, though they've been sued before by a lesbian&nbsp;and by a guy who was married (admittedly, getting divorced) and wanted to start spouse-shopping again.]]></description>
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