Sorry guys, but in a market that doesn't protect consumers from arbitrary rejection on demographic grounds, you're also not protected from competitors' non-libelous claims. (I think.) Anyway, the poster who said this is mostly going to generate PR for chemistry.com is right. eHarmony should shut up and keep arranging very fast heterosexual Christian marriages.

I'm unclear what part eHarmony is upset about? If they don't want the gay dating market, why even care if they're called on it?

Ingen, apparently they care.

They care because many straight people are now not going to use eHarmony. Plus, this is bad bad publicity.

eHarmony was originally part of Focus on the Family, right?

nevermind. found the answer on wikipedia.

same sex couples be damned; they're shortist!:

"On April 2, 2007, an advocacy group calling itself The National Organization of Short Statured Adults put forth a claim that eHarmony intentionally excluded short statured men from the site. Dr. Neil Clark Warren has admitted that he won't match taller women with shorter men because he believes that's a difference difficult to overcome in a relationship. The group has called for a boycott of the website."

Love it. those eHarmony commercials always pissed me off. Glad that Chemistry got on board in a knock-down free market brawl. I think it is fine for eHarmony to discriminate in the way it does, but i'm thrilled that they are being exposed for the wack job christian organization they are.

remember the SNL commercial for "MeHarmony?" that was funny.

let eharmony do what they want. i tried it for a while, found it useless, moved on. but if they only know how to match a certain type of heterosexual, then how can you force them to match people they don't know how to match? there are dating sites for gays, for minorities, some with different portals for men and women. why shouldn't eharmony be allowed to market their website to who they want?

I don't think anyone here was saying that they shouldn't be allowed to market to whomever they want. I think the general consensus was that they have no good reason to whine about Chemistry.com's response ad.

I acually work for eHarmony and we are still the most trusted and successful relationship service in the United States. Obviously it does work...

Yeah, it works for people who hate gay people. Keep it up.

Eharmony is about compatibility, which obviously 60% percent of marriages out there that failed did not take into account.
So here comes Chemistry.com, which is obviously about the numbers, use the old method of 'chemistry' which got these failed marriages together in the first place. So WHATS NEW, People! Get with the program!
Then gays want to join because they want to be accepted and want services that heterosexuals have. They should get their own services going, then.

Eharmony is Great. I and my sister both met awesome people there, and a few good friends to boot. EH accepts all races and religions etc, its not solely Christian as was stated. I think the focus on this blog is the media steering your attention to the fact EH does not match gay men (and women) so what? There are plenty of sites and avenues for that I'm sure, so why not start your own? - why bash a successful site trying to let straight people find other straight people? We are 85+ % of the population. Its like saying my mechanic only works on foreign cars, not american made so he is an a**h***! This is what EH specializes in so get over it. (btw I love gay people!, just not brainless bloggers, don't be haters EH rocks)

(for EH) The biggest reason for rejection, it says, is that the applicant is married. Stunningly, nearly one-third of the company's rejects (30 percent) fell into this category. Others are blocked because they're younger than the minimum application age of 21 (27 percent) or because the applicant gives inconsistent answers (9 percent), based on responses to eHarmony's 258-question application. So if you want someone who is already married, gives sketchy answers, or is too young to be in a mature relationship...then Chemistry or the other chop-shop dating sites are definitely for you.

Take a look at WinkedAt (google them.. www.winkedat.com) as an alternative to both... and use the internet as a tool to facilitate to search instead of search and do what our species has done for thousands of years.. found matches on our own...