“The reason I said marriage is a holy matrimony between a man and a woman is based on my own personal experience,” he said. “I am a straight man married to a woman I love and I have two beautiful daughters I love from the marriage. This is how I feel about my marriage.”

He also chided the publication for not asking him for comment before publishing its story. Zach Stafford, the editor in chief of Into, said the reporter had asked for comment through a Grindr spokesman but didn’t receive a response.

Mr. Chen’s original post was in response to the overwhelming defeat of a same-sex marriage referendum in Taiwan, where he was educated and has family. On the same day he posted it, Mr. Chen shared an Into article about the founder of HTC, the Chinese tech company, backing groups that opposed same-sex marriage.

Here is Mr. Chen’s full post, translated from Chinese:

Some people think that marriage is a holy union between a man and a woman, I think so too, but that’s your own business. Some people think that the purpose of marriage is to bring up children with your own DNA, but that’s your own business. But there are people who aren’t the same as you, and desperately hope that they can also get married; they have their own reasons for wanting that. Getting married is personal. If you have money, can’t you donate to people suffering from poverty, hunger, war or natural disasters, those who are truly in need of it? Why do you spend so much money to prevent people in love from getting married? Aren’t there other important things in your life? It’s true, I won’t buy HTC products for the rest of my life, and I won’t donate any money to Taiwan’s Christian groups ever again for the rest of my life!

Grindr did not respond to a message seeking comment.

As Mr. Chen’s comments caromed through social media, some of Grindr’s millions of users expressed disappointment that the president of the app held such a view.

And other publications latched on as well. An article by Out Magazine was headlined: “The President of Grindr Just Said He’s AGAINST Gay Marriage.”