Per a settlement to a discrimination lawsuit approved by a California judge in late June, the dating website ChristianMingle.com is now adjusting its service to accommodate gay couples. The lawsuit claimed a violation of California’s Unruh Civil Rights Act, which prohibits discrimination based on sexual orientation. The same-sex accommodation will also apply to ChristianMingle’s sister dating-sites, such as CatholicMingle.com, and so forth. This got The Scrapbook wondering . . .
Just as California’s Unruh Civil Rights Act prohibits discrimination based on sexual orientation, it prohibits discrimination based on religion—so will ChristianMingle also need to begin connecting non-Christian couples? Will CatholicMingle have to begin hosting Protestants?
The Unruh Civil Rights Act also prohibits discrimination based on color, race, and marital status. Will BlackSingles.com (another site owned by the parent company) have to begin connecting white, married people? The Unruh Act covers age and disability too. Will SilverSingles (for the more senior end of the dating pool) have to take adolescents? Will DeafSingles be required to handle the nondeaf?
For that matter, will Black Entertainment Television have to start showing white entertainment? Chinese restaurants serve spaghetti? We’ll stop there. The Scrapbook is not a lawyer and didn’t even stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night. So we think we’re just being facetious, but these days, who knows?
