Reply #31: Aaaaand it's locked. Here is some background on the politics of e-crapmoney [View All]

[bluedawg12]

I wouldn't use them or their service on princple - why support those with strong ties to rw haters?

But for the FYI files:

The players: fracas/phobia on the family supported warren in his early days, then warren split to broaden his image and make more $$$ but excluded gays and he tried to justify it, as seen in the USA Today 2005 piece, a gay challenged his anti-Calif. law policy, the company is based in Calif., and warren hired a noted rw hit-attorney, who was also involved in the old impeach Clinton rw movement, and was the laywer for shrub in shrub vs. Gore at the SCOTUS level, and this rw mouth piece decided that they should settle this out of Court as they violated Calf. law.

It is precisely because of gay activism that the bullsh*t spewed in the 2005 USA today story, complete with homophobic coded bigotry and blather about being illegal was challenged legally and their attorney rw’er Ted Olsen folded and settled out of court.

Activism + Courts = fairness to gays.

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Neil Clark Warren


Riches of love: Neil Clark Warren has built eHarmony into the fourth-largest online dating service.

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http://www.usatoday.com/life/people/2005-05-18-eharmony_x.htm

From 2005

>>Warren, 70, really is a grandpa. Born on an Iowa farm, he's quick with a down-home hug and a smile...

And he really does want to set you up — but only if you're emotionally healthy, heterosexual and want to get married...

A psychologist with a divinity degree, Warren has emerged from the Christian community — three of his 10 books on love and dating were published by conservative Focus on the Family — to become one of the Internet's most unlikely entrepreneurs.

Warren started out marketing primarily to Christian sites, touting eHarmony as "based on the Christian principles of Focus on the Family author Dr. Neil Clark Warren."

The connection may come as a surprise to today's mainstream users: Nothing in Warren's TV or radio ads ($50 million spent last year, $80 million projected this year) hints at his Christian background.

And while it's no secret, the Web site doesn't play it up, either.

eHarmony increasingly is seeking out secular audiences through online partnerships, including promotions on USATODAY.com and other news sites owned by USA TODAY's parent company, Gannett. As part of that effort, Warren is trying to distance himself from Focus on the Family and its founder James Dobson, a longtime friend.

Warren says he will no longer appear on Dobson's radio show, and he recently bought back the rights to the three books Focus on the Family published —Finding the Love of Your Life, Make Anger Your Ally and Learning to Live with the Love of Your Life - so he can drop Focus' name from their covers.

"We're trying to reach the whole world — people of all spiritual orientations, all political philosophies, all racial backgrounds," Warren says. "And if indeed, we have Focus on the Family on the top of our books, it is a killer. Because people do recognize them as occupying a very precise political position in this society and a very precise spiritual position."...

Some also criticize eHarmony's decision to refuse to provide matches for gays and lesbians — a policy that differs from Yahoo, Match.com and many other sites.

"From a corporate perspective, eHarmony does discriminate. There's clearly a deliberate desire to exclude gay people from the site," says New York psychiatrist Jack Drescher, who is gay and treats gay and lesbian couples.

But Warren says eHarmony promotes heterosexual marriage, about which he has done extensive research. He says he does not know enough about gay and lesbian relationships to do same-sex matching.

It "calls for some very careful thinking. Very careful research." He adds that same-sex marriage is illegal in most states. "We don't really want to participate in something that's illegal."

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Clark_Warren

>>Warren attributes much of eHarmony's initial success to its promotion on the daily radio broadcast of Focus on the Family. As the company expanded and sought broader market share, Warren parted ways with Focus on the Family and its founder, James Dobson. In 2005, Warren discontinued his appearances on Dobson’s radio show and bought back rights to three of his books — Finding the Love of Your Life, Make Anger Your Ally, and Learning to Live with the Love of Your Life — originally published by Focus on the Family. As Warren explained, "We're trying to reach the whole world — people of all spiritual orientations, all political philosophies, all racial backgrounds."<3><<

I guess they weren’t trying to reach gays, as apparently, gays aren’t people?

The “e-hatemoney” mouth piece Teddy Olsen

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Ted Olsen attorney for e-hate-money settled the case out of court.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Olsen



Leave it to Bevry!

Olson successfully represented presidential candidate George W. Bush in the Supreme Court case Bush v. Gore, which effectively determined the final result of the contested 2000 Presidential election.

He was nominated to the Office of Solicitor General by President Bush on February 14, 2001, was confirmed by the United States Senate on May 24, 2001, and took office on June 11, 2001. In


Olson served Giuliani's 2008 presidential campaign as judicial committee chairman.<5>

Olson was present at the first meeting of the Federalist Society.<5>

Executive appointment speculation
Prior to President Bush's nomination of D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge John Roberts, Olson was considered a potential nominee to the Supreme Court of the United States to fill Sandra Day O'Connor's post. Following the withdrawal of Harriet Miers' nomination for that post, and prior to the nomination of Third Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Samuel Alito, Olson's name was again mentioned as a possible nominee.

In September 2007, Olson was considered by the Bush administration for the post of Attorney General to succeed Alberto Gonzales. However, the Democratic response was so strongly negative that Bush chose to nominate Michael Mukasey instead.<6>