Jenerally Speaking

I usually try not to use my blog to state too many opinions on world matters, but this irritated me so much. It appears that someone is suing eHarmony.com because they do not offer a matchmaking option for gays and bisexuals to use their service.
Logically, one would assume that if a person is gay and if eHarmony isn’t offering gay matchmaking services, then perhaps eHarmony is not the dating service they should be using. eHarmony has done research and has had years of experience in matching heterosexuals…and it is their right to only offer the service to them. In my opinion, a private business has the right to offer whichever services they feel qualified or willing to offer. The woman is not being prevented from joining the site. They haven’t denied her the right to use the site based on anything. They just don’t have the services she needs. An intelligent person would normally realize this and move on. She, however, has decided it is her right to make eHarmony change their entire site to cater to her sexual preferences.
It’s like me walking into a formal clothing store for men and deciding to sue because they don’t have formal clothing for women. Aren’t private businesses allowed to decide what services they offer and to to whom they want to offer them?

Are we saying that every business now has to cater to every single difference in this world?

Seeing that this case is being held in California, I have very little hope that the outcome will be what it should be, but I have been surprised before.

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