I am of two separate and distinct minds on this matter however. On the one hand, I don’t really understand how you can “force” a company into doing something like this. They have set their business model up one way and cater to the heterosexual community. There is nothing about eHarmony that would prevent some competitor or start-up to fill the niche of providing similar services to same-sex couples. This is not discrimination. If you don’t like the services that eHarmony offers, then go elsewhere (or start your own). As a matter of fact, according the msnbc story:
The popular online matchmaker has been sued before for discrimination.

Last year, a Northern California woman sued the online dating service. She also alleged discrimination against gays, lesbians and bisexuals.

In 2005, a San Francisco man filed a similar complaint to McKinley’s, but the state determined no discrimination laws were violated.

On the other hand, I am happy about the ruling in so much as with New Jersey agreeing and pushing this case as discrimination, it is recognition in a sense that there is no real difference between heterosexual and homosexual couples other than the parties involved.

Of course, I am certain that Bill O’Reilly will offer this up as “proof” of his and Newt Gingrich’s arguments that as Gingrich stated: “I think there is a gay and secular fascism in this country that wants to impose its will on the rest of us.” So, I am curious, in a can’t look away when you see the trainwreck coming kind of way see where this is going to take us.

After about two minutes into his portion of the interview, Colmes read to Bachmann her pre-election comments in which she said, “I’m very concerned (Barack Obama) may have anti-American views” and had called for the media to do a “penetrating expose” into the “views of the people in Congress and find out if they’re pro-America or anti-America.”

When confronted with this what does Michelle Bachmann say? That she never said it, that it was an “urban legend.” Apparently she believes she can just pretend it never happened and that people won’t be able to prove that she did. Unfortunately for her… this isn’t the “good old days” before television shows were recorded.

“The Obama recession is in full swing, ladies and gentlemen,” Limbaugh told his radio audience of 15 million to 20 million on Thursday. “Stocks are dying, which is a precursor of things to come. This is an Obama recession. Might turn into a depression.”

These of course are the same type of people backed by “expert” Dave Ramsey that claimed there was no recession and that it was being “made up” by the media. Earlier this year Ramsey said,

“I’m 47-years-old,” Ramsey replied, “and every year in my memory, there’s been some sort of talk like this … but I’ve never seen it happen.

OK — but how can we be so certain that the world’s not going to fall apart this time around?

“The U.S has the most robust economy in the history of man, and it’s the most sophisticated it’s ever been; there are lots of checks and balances and safety nets,” Ramsey explained.

Of course, there is always an excuse at the ready. As these naysayers, continued to push forward for the past year, the “classic definition” of recession (2 consecutive quarters of declining GDP), the situation continued to deteriorate, but now they want to blame the not yet President for it.

It was last November when Fed Chairman rebuffed Sen Chuck Schumer (D-NY), stating that his forecast was for moderate but continued growth when Schumer asked if we were headed towards a recession. As Bob Herbert pointed out in a NY Times Op-Ed last November:

With all due respect to the chairman, he would see the recession that so many others are feeling if he would only open his eyes. While Mr. Bernanke and others are waiting for the official diagnosis (a decline in the gross domestic product for two successive quarters), the disease is spreading and has been spreading for some time.

This wasn’t Monday morning quarterbacking, this was a year ago, when something could have (and should have) been done. But instead, the partisan wingnuts instead choose to rewrite history. And I guess when you had Fox News touting how “right” people like Ben Stein were, who were screaming “The subprime mortgage problem is grossly overstated; the sector is just too small,” I guess you really need to rewrite it if you are going to even feign going forward that you have any idea what you are talking about.

Newsbusters is trying to throw Faux News’ Carl Cameron under the bus as “liberal”?  Their complaint… throwing Sarah Palin under the bus by reporting on what is being said by former campaign staffers.  Apparently it is “not objective reporting” to simply report (without spin) what those that have had to deal with the rogue diva over the past couple of months.  It seems these divisions are running deep now as the neocon class wingnuts have apparently hooked their wagons to Palin as the shining star of the party, and if you don’t give them somebody to attack, they will attack you instead.  Better keep that in mind Carl.