ChristianMingle.com must allow homosexuals
ChristianMingle.com must start facilitating same-sex relationships, a judge ordered after two homosexual men filed a class-action claim against the online dating service. Spark Networks Inc., the parent company of ChristianMingle, is based in California. The homosexual men took legal action under the state’s anti-discrimination law, which mandates “full and equal accommodations” to people regardless of their “sexual orientation.” According to the legal settlement , ChristianMingle and other Spark-owned matchmaking sites — CatholicMingle.com, AdventistSinglesConnection.com and BlackSingles.com — must cease asking users if they are men seeking women or women seeking men. Instead, the sites will only ask users if they are men or women and then allow them to seek heterosexual or homosexual relationships. The Spark-owned sites cannot return to asking users if they are men seeking women or vice versa unless the site “provides similar prompts which allow individuals seeking a sam