Image of dangerous e-lesbians: Gilles Berquet, via, also.
But he better not try to “cure” mine. Silent as a fart, Bush released his nomination for Surgeon general, Joseph Holsinger, which Daily Kos points out,
Holsinger and his wife:
…founded Hope Springs Community Church in a warehouse at 1109 Versailles Road. Calhoun called it a socially diverse congregation with a “very vital recovery ministry.” It serves the homeless and those with addictions to drugs, alcohol and sex; and it has a Spanish-language Hispanic congregation with its own pastor. […]
Hope Springs also ministers to people who no longer wish to be gay or lesbian, Calhoun said.
“We see that as an issue not of orientation but of lifestyle,” he said. “We have people who seek to walk out of that lifestyle.”
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And, I’ve sideswiped eHarmony for being hetero-biased in the past… But it looks like I’m *not* the only one who thinks this is a problem. Snip from SFGate/AP:
Linda Carlson was looking for a partner and decided to try eHarmony, the Pasadena-based online dating service that advertises its ability to “deliver matches that have the foundation of compatibility based on a lifetime of joy.” When the San Mateo County woman tried to log in, she was given two options: “man seeking a woman” or “woman seeking a man.”
Neither suited Carlson, who was seeking another woman. Her complaint to the company this February got nowhere, and on Thursday, she filed suit in Los Angeles accusing eHarmony of violating a California law that prohibits businesses from discriminating based on sexual orientation.
“The case is about moving gay rights into this century,” Todd Schneider, a lawyer for Carlson, said Friday. “It could not possibly be OK to say no black people allowed, or no Chinese people allowed, but for some reason, this Web site thinks it’s OK to say no gay people allowed.”
But Lanny Davis, a lawyer for eHarmony, said the company isn’t violating California law by excluding gays and lesbians. He said the law prohibits only arbitrary discrimination that lacks a legitimate business purpose.
“Our rational business basis is that our research database comes from a clinical psychiatrist observing successful marriages vs. non-successful,” observations based entirely on opposite-sex marriages, Davis said. He said a claim of discrimination against same-sex partners is comparable to a suit against a Japanese restaurant “for discriminating against people who like French food.”
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