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lpt -> RE: eHarmony advice: How to navigate the one night stand (4/22/2008 12:31:52 AM)
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ORIGINAL: Prairiehiker
Also, I think the poster admitted that E has taken the "article" down. If it was an actual article written by an E staff. I looked at the website and I saw an advice column where members are allowed to ask other members questions. It's like a forum. Perhaps, we should check if the "article" in question is written by a member. Also, just to repeat, it was taken down.
Do you think that there might be another way of handling this instead of outrightly banning Eharmony? I mean, there's an open forum there for members to ask questions, and give advice. Could the Christian members use those forums to share their values to the other E members without being judgmental? I mean, who knows what could happen if we actually interact with non Christians.
I'm a huge supporter of Focus on the Family. I never miss Dr Dobson's broadcasts and I would be very sad if they are ever associated with anything "questionable". However, before I start jumping into conclussions, I would investigate it further. And I wouldn't throw out all the books that Dr Dobson have written. He's written some really good stuff and one bad mistake doesn't automatically cancel all that!
The article in question was not from a mere member. It was "advice" from eHarmony itself. They acknowledged that in a recent "mea culpa" editorial.
Yes, they've been caught. And yes, they've removed the article. What I have to ask is, "Why was this article let through in the first place?" It was no accident. There was the author, the graphic artist, the editor, the person who entered the article into their database, the eHarmony employees who saw it and didn't disagree with it, the person who compiled the newsletter that announced the article, and so on. Nobody stopped this from being published, even after many people left comments on it, even after many people contacted eHarmony to drop their membership. They finally unpublished it after Focus on the Family and others publicized it, and people started unsubscribing from eHarmony.
This article appeared on eHarmony not by accident, but because of an ideology that demands more market share, an ideology spearheaded and affirmed by NCW. In my opinion, they are more concerned about making money than about honoring the Lord by bringing two people together in marriage. They've apologized for their little indiscretion, in my opinion, because they don't want to lose members, thus demonstrating that, again, they seem to be motivated by money, and not by principle.
We at Focus on the Family have a lot of checks and balances in place. I don't see how something like this could ever be published on any Focus on the Family ministry Web site. Honestly.
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