{"id":6872,"date":"2013-02-13T14:42:44","date_gmt":"2013-02-13T19:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/?p=6872"},"modified":"2013-02-13T14:42:44","modified_gmt":"2013-02-13T19:42:44","slug":"eunharmony-sorry-no-love-for-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/6872","title":{"rendered":"eUnharmony&#8230;Sorry, No Love For You&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just in time for Valentine&#8217;s Day Eve&#8230;via The Advocate&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.advocate.com\/business\/2013\/02\/13\/eharmony-founder-gay-marriage-damaged-our-company\">eHarmony Founder: Gay Marriage &#8220;Damaged Our Company&#8221;<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>After he was forced to open up his site to gay users, Neil Clark Warren says he had to hire guards to protect his employees from furious conservatives.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He had to hire guards &#8220;&#8230;to protect our lives because the people were so hurt and angry with us,  were Christian people, who feel that it&#8217;s a violation to scripture&#8221; and it&#8217;s Teh Gay who damaged his company. \u00a0 Well Neil perhaps it was those &#8220;Christian people&#8221; (sic) who damaged it, when they and their forebears went on a rampage in the hearts of their neighbors over the course of millennia. \u00a0 The lonely gay people who went to your site, only to get turned down, were there looking for what every lonely heterosexual went looking there for, what you promised them they would find that made your dating site better than the others. Compatible partners. That matchmaking algorithm you advertised was more reliable then just browsing the personals. They were looking for someone to love and be loved by you drooling moron, and after all, you&#8217;re in the business of selling love aren&#8217;t you? \u00a0 You know what that is&#8230;right&#8230;?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I have said that eHarmony really ought<strong> <\/strong>to put up $10  million and ask other companies to put up money and do a really first  class job of figuring out homosexuality. At the very best, it&#8217;s been a  painful way for a lot of people to have to live.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yes it has Neil. Because of louts like you. \u00a0 Money isn&#8217;t your problem. \u00a0 The only thing stopping you from figuring out homosexuality are your bar stool prejudices. \u00a0 All those lonely, hopeful people you turned away as unfit for your services&#8230;never mind whether or not your computer matchmaking scheme actually works or not&#8230;they walked away with a tiny little bit more of that pain than they had when they got there&#8230;<em>No Homos<\/em>&#8230;and that teensy tiny little bit more has your name on it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just in time for Valentine&#8217;s Day Eve&#8230;via The Advocate&#8230; eHarmony Founder: Gay Marriage &#8220;Damaged Our Company&#8221; After he was forced to open up his site to gay users, Neil Clark Warren says he had to hire guards to protect his employees from furious conservatives. He had to hire guards &#8220;&#8230;to protect our lives because the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[18,19],"class_list":["post-6872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-gratuitous-anti-gay-hate","tag-the-jackass-chronicles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6872\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}