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eHarmony Launches Gay Online Dating Site

After going through a discrimination court case last fall, in which the New Jersey attorney general ordered eHarmony to create a counterpart gay online dating site, Compatible Partners (eHarmony’s gay online dating site) has been launched in order to make due on the equal rights promise.

eHarmony designed the gay online dating site after its parent site by maintaining many of the same standards that eHarmony is know for, such as the all-encompassing, relationship-preferences questionnaire; however, it is questionable whether eHarmony’s gay online dating site, Compatible Partners, will have the same level of success as its parent site, much due to the fact that eHarmony notes clearly in the disclaimer that “The company has not conducted similar research on same-sex relationships.”

Many people are skeptical of the effectiveness of the pairing process eHarmony’s gay online dating site will have, like Patrick Perrine, CEO of the gay online dating site myPartner.com, who noted that the technology and means used for matching gay men on his site would never work in a hetero-site.

Others are skeptical of the effort that will be put forth by eHarmony towards their gay online dating site, noting that one of eHarmony’s founders and present chairman, Neil Clark Warren, is a devout evangelical Christian who may not support the idea of a gay online dating site.

In eHarmony defense, when they where asked about the religious issue, CEO Greg Waldorf said, “Our mission is to help our users find great long-term relationships,” adding, “We started in the opposite-sex market, which is where all of our experience was. That doesn’t mean we were against something.”