Comments on: eHarmony forced to offer same-sex dating services http://mensnewsdaily.com/sexandmetro/2008/11/20/eharmony-forced-to-offer-same-sex-dating-services/ Your Daily Dose of Counter-Theory Sat, 21 Nov 2009 23:18:26 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: panic http://mensnewsdaily.com/sexandmetro/2008/11/20/eharmony-forced-to-offer-same-sex-dating-services/comment-page-1/#comment-319 panic Sat, 22 Nov 2008 13:31:40 +0000 http://mensnewsdaily.com/sexandmetro/?p=4599#comment-319 Even the Fox analysts got it wrong. The Court got it wrong, and for the wrong reason. This is not a civil rights case - since no claim that gays were blocked, excluded, discouraged, deprecated or treated differently in any way. This is a commerce case. Gay insist on purchasing a product from a manufacturer that does not offer it. The proper analogy is to require General Motors to make a car with no doors and 5 wheels, and the Court said that was reasonable. What's next - demand Coors sell you beer in your choice of flavor? Even the Fox analysts got it wrong.
The Court got it wrong, and for the wrong reason.
This is not a civil rights case – since no claim that gays were blocked, excluded, discouraged, deprecated or treated differently in any way.

This is a commerce case.
Gay insist on purchasing a product from a manufacturer that does not offer it.
The proper analogy is to require General Motors to make a car with no doors and 5 wheels, and the Court said that was reasonable.
What’s next – demand Coors sell you beer in your choice of flavor?

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