| eHarmony.com sued for excluding homosexuals
LOS ANGELES, Calif. A Los Angeles woman has sued the popular online dating site eHarmony.com, claiming she was discriminated against based on her sexual orientation when the Web site refused to pair her with another woman. eHarmony was founded in 2000 by Neil Clark Warren, an evangelical with ties to Focus on the Family, and it has grown to more than 12 million registered users, according to Reuters. The lawyer for the woman, Linda Carlson, said the lawsuit was "about changing the landscape and making a statement out there that gay people, just like heterosexuals, have the right and desire to meet other people with whom they can fall in love." Carlson is urging fellow homosexuals to join the class action lawsuit geared toward forcing eHarmony to change its policy.
Love-15, love-30. . . Mark Philippoussis loves them all
Slowly but surely, Mark Philippoussis, the former tennis star from Australia, closes in on the grand-slam that so painfully eluded him as a player. Will it be Amanda, a 25-year-old pompom shaker from Nashville, or will the man we knew as "Scud" plump for 48-year-old Jen as his perfect doubles partner? Welcome to Age of Love, shown on American television over the summer but now receiving UK exposure, on E4. Think Mr Right, in which a team of romance and publicity-hungry women competed for the heart of an eligible bachelor. Except, in that case, the bachelor in question copped off with Ulrika Jonsson, the presenter. No chance of that here. The authorities had to act after that embarrassment, which threatened to bring the entire reality love-quest genre into contempt, and Age of Love, one notes, is carefully presented by a man, in whom Scud has shown no interest so far.
Birmingham Startup taps Christian tech company
An online Christian social youth hangout emerged as Birmingham's newest tech company after an accelerated startup process. CrossConneXion.com launched on Sunday. It made it through a two-week screening and development process conducted by members of Birmingham Startup. Birmingham Startup met, shared ideas, voted to narrow the proposed projects to three before choosing CrossConneXion.com as its collaborative effort. Jim Sutton, youth pastor at First Church Worship Center in Tarrant, pitched CrossConnexion an online Christian social hangout where teens can connect with friends and God. CrossConneXion.com will allow users to seek job and mission opportunities, watch celebrity interviews, upload pictures and videos and find teen-related information such as peer pressure, dating, college prep tips and leadership.
Hi-ho, the derry-o, a farmer meets a girl
When a new girlfriend showed up to see dairy farmer Joe Engel at work, he took an anxious breath when she walked through the barn door. No doubt about it, she was cute. But Engel, 26, had been down this country road before. "I glanced up and saw her holding her nose, and that was it," says the farmer, whose family owns Luck-E Holsteins in Hampshire, Ill. "It dawned on me -- why waste any more of your time, or my time?" .
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