eHarmony: 20% of people are unmatchable

After the post I made about same sex relationships not allowed on eHarmony.com, I received several comments from people that said they were rejected from the service. That sounded odd to me, so I thought about reasons (based on those comments) that one might get rejected.

To: eHarmony Customer Care

Do you reject people for being atheist?

Do you reject people that indicate low sexual attraction to or low interest in "the beauty of" the opposite sex in their profile questions?

Do you reject people for having liberal viewpoints?

Do you have plans to include same sex profil matching services in the future?

Do you have plans to allow all people of all religious viewpoints to participate?

These questions are very direct and thus I would like direct answers. I understand the goals of your site and your mission.

Thank you!

Very professional, I thought.

Their response is typical, but interesting:

Dear eHarmony Customer,

Thank you for writing eHarmony.

20% of the people will still be determined as unmatchable upon answering the Personality Profile.

The system does not give specific answers on this information.

I apologize for the inconvenience.

Thank you for using eHarmony and please let me know if I can help you in the future.

I'll take that as a yes, yes, yes, no, no.

Top 10 Most Outrageous Statements of the Year

Rush Limbaugh on the Abu Ghraib photos: "I'm talking about people having a good time, these people, you ever heard of emotional release? You ever heard of need to blow some steam off?"

Ann Coulter: "[Senator John] Kerry will improve the economy in the emergency services and body bag industry."

Tony Blankley called philanthropist George Soros "a Jew who figured out a way to survive the Holocaust."

Michael Savage: "When you hear 'human rights,' think gays. ... [T]hink only one thing: someone who wants to rape your son."

Oliver North: "Every terrorist out there is hoping John Kerry is the next president of the United States."

Pat Robertson on gays and lesbians: "[S]elf-absorbed hedonists ... that want to impose their particular sexuality on the rest of America."

Pat Buchanan: "[H]omosexuality is an affliction, like alcoholism."

Bill O'Reilly to Jewish caller: "[I]f you are really offended, you gotta go to Israel."

Bill Cunningham (Clear Channel radio host who appeared as a guest on The Sean Hannity Show): The election is over because "Elizabeth Edwards has now sung."

Jerry Falwell: "And we're going to invite PETA [to "wild game night"] as our special guest, P-E-T-A -- People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. We want you to come, we're going to give you a top seat there, so you can sit there and suffer. This is one of my special groups, another one's the ACLU, another is the NOW -- the National Order of Witches [sic]. We've got -- I've got a lot of special groups."

The sort of thing I stand against....

It's the insane things like this that make me a passionate liberal. It's just amazing to me that people exist in this country that think like this.

via Raw Story / Daily Kos