Truth Wins Out offered to help educate e-Harmony co-founder Neil Clark Warren about the lives of gay and lesbian people today, after he 
demonstrated through a series of ignorant comments that he knows little about the topic. Warren also failed to take personal responsibility for his own business mistakes, by claiming that he is “tired” of the same-sex marriage debate and that the issue has “really damaged our company.”
“I think this issue of same-sex marriage within the next five to 15 years will be no issue anymore,” Warren told Yahoo! Finance. “We’ve made too much of it. I’m tired of it. It has really damaged our company.”
“I have said that eHarmony really ought to put up $10 million and ask other companies to put up money and do a really first class job of figuring out homosexuality,” he also noted. “At the very best, it’s been a painful way for a lot of people to have to live.”
It appears that Clark Warren, who describes himself as a “passionate follower of Jesus,” is still bitter about having to launch a gay dating site, Compatible Partners, in response to a lawsuit filed against eHarmony in 2008 for discriminating against LGBT people who wanted to use his matchmaking service.
If Clark Warren believes that the lives of gay people are inherently painful, it is probably because the homosexuals who attend his church are stigmatized, treated poorly, and made to feel inferior. TWO would be pleased to introduce him to healthy, happy, LGBT people who are living incredibly rich and fulfilling lives. Furthermore, there is already a significant body of research that helps explain the etiology of sexual orientation. If he would like to educate himself, we could arrange meetings with America’s top scientists who study this topic. At the very least, we could save him $10 million.
Here is a good place for Clark Warren to begin his education:
Yeah, I was stunned by the arrogance of $10 million quote, particularly galling coming from a person with a PhD in clinical psychology.
But, I’m also a terrible fit for the way his dating services work. For me, it felt extremely fear-based that I should only consider people I was very much like as potential partners. Plus, it seemed designed for people who were afraid to reach out to others in their own words, as opposed to gimicky winks or nods.
In that context, maybe it shouldn’t surprise me that the guy has somehow managed to be approaching 80 without having known any gay people personally.
WHY ON EARTH would any LGBT person want to use a dating site put together by someone or an organization that feels the way he does? There are SO many other options that offer a healthy and safe environment for the community to mingle. As an atheist, I certainly would turn to a less repressed and hypocritical source for dating and romance.
That said, the lawsuit that resulted in their “gay” site was misguided, in my opinion. How is that “rising above it?” I don’t think that equality should be stretched so far as to force a group or organization to change who they are. Are straight people rushing to ManHunt to find true love? I doubt it. And why would they? There are SO MANY options for them. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t love the idea that a group can discriminate…but I don’t think that the right solution has been found.
I suspect that Jesus would turn his back on this rube, if not spit in his face.
Speak of the devil! I was *just* asking out loud if the founder of e-harmony had gotten over his ignorant self. Leave it to TWO to be right on time with the news.
“A really first class job of figuring out homosexuality.” – He sounds like that blowhard Donald Trump.
Maybe we could spend $10 million figuring out why people are so bigoted.
Warren noted that eHarmony promotes heterosexual marriage, adding that same-sex marriage is illegal in most states, “We don’t really want to participate in something that’s illegal.”[20] In a separate interview, Warren went into more detail on his own views, noting that “cities like San Francisco, Chicago or New York… they could shut [eHarmony] down so fast. We don’t want to make enemies out of them. But at the same time, I take a real strong stand against same-sex marriage, anywhere that I can comment on it.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EHarmony
Mr. Warren, there is simply NOTHING to compare to the self satisfied, smug ignorance of a certain class of so-called Christian.
Really.
Quoting Mr. Clueless: “we literally had to hire guards to protect our lives because the people were so hurt and angry with us, were Christian people, who feel that it’s a violation to scripture.” So it isn’t those bullying homoagenda-ists, it’s your OWN KIND that are creating your problems. Yet i distinctly remember hearing how violent we are.
And this: “We’ve made too much of it. I’m tired of it. It has really damaged our company.” A golden nugget of truth, glittering at the bottom of that big barrel of Whine. You preach against it, you pretend it is illegal in the same way that theft is illegal,you get yourself assciated with bigotry, you and your kind make it the biggest uissue ever, and YOU’RE tired of it?
For the last 40 years, I’ve listened to so called Christians blame me and mine for calling down God’s wrath, call me and mine a threat to children, family, god, marriage, the military, public health, heterosexuality, freedom, faith, god, and Western Civilization…
All without a shred of logic, facts, experience, compassion, or good manners. And YOU’RE tired of it?
And now, you want to spend 10 million to figure out homosexuality? how about spending money on feeding starving children, providing jobs for distressed families, or marital counselling for people who should never have gotten married, lt alone reproduced.
I’ll charge you $1.98 for the top secret information. some people are gay. most people are straight.
You can spend the other $9, 999,998.02 on figuring out why some heterosexuals are so obsessed with homosexuality that they pervert Christianity, wreck families, damage our country with insanity, harm complete strangers and their children, and are willing to spend $10 million to figure out the obvious: some people are gay.
BTW, Frank?
I also agree that the lawsuit was misguided and counterproductive. We should save using public accommodation laws for things that are truly serious. I wouldn’t bother wit it otherwise, preferring instread to use the power of the interet to let people know that company X is a horde of raging bigots.
William, Jesus wouldn’t turn his back nor spit on anyone; even this big blowhard.
It’s not that most people are straight. In fact, most people are bisexual [Kinsey]. So if you’re conditioned all your early life to think gay feelings are sinful, and – surprise – here you are having them yourself, not only are you going to believe that homosexuality is a choice (which it is not) but that anyone who has made that choice has *chosen the evil choice* that you yourself are repressing, and are therefore evil (forgiveness notwithstanding).
This explains:
- Straight people,comfortable in their sexuality, who couldn’t care less when they discover their best friend is gay.
- Strident anti-gay religious types who later are discovered in same-sex encounters.
- Lack of understanding by a majority of those indoctrinated to believe homosexuality is bad, that it could be normal (because mustn’t everyone, like them, also have straight feelings, or be able to suppress gay thoughts?).
I look forward to the day when we all can discover and express who we are without concern about someone else’s judgement. In the meantime, it’s nice to know it really is their problem.
“No fool like an old fool!” Just another Christian oriented idiot who thinks that the “love of Jesus” in his heart means he doesn’t have to bother dealing with reality, truth, facts. It is a true pity when dumbness is coupled with religion and/or religious beliefs.
God speed Dr. Warren!