Lonely? Gay? Internet savvy? eHarmony is about to offer a solution for you— though only because smacked with a lawsuit. In 2005 Eric McKinley sued the online dating website for refusing to play matchmaker for him due to his sexual orientation. The company, which was established by an evangelical shrink, will now offer matching services via CompatiblePartners.net, despite owner Neil Clark Warren’s assertions that he hadn’t previously offered gay matching because of his ignorance of homosexual relationships.

The LA Times reports:

Coming soon to EHarmony -- Adam and Steve.

The Pasadena-based dating website, heavily promoted by Christian evangelical leaders when it was founded, has agreed in a civil rights settlement to give up its heterosexuals-only policy and offer same-sex matches.

EHarmony was started by psychologist Neil Clark Warren, who is known for his mild-mannered television and radio advertisements. It must not only implement the new policy by March 31 but also give the first 10,000 same-sex registrants a free six-month subscription.

"That was one of the things I asked for," said Eric McKinley, 46, who complained to New Jersey's Division on Civil Rights after being turned down for a subscription in 2005…

The settlement, which did not find that EHarmony broke any laws, calls for the company to either offer the gay matches on its current venue or create a new site for them. EHarmony has opted to create a site called Compatiblepartners.net.

Warren had said in past interviews that he didn't want to feature same-sex services on EHarmony -- which matches people based on long questionnaires concerning personality traits, relationship history and interests -- because he felt he didn't know enough about gay relationships.

Despite Warren’s alleged homosexual ineptitude, the website evidently uses the same questionnaires used by the heterosexual eHarmony website. So though he hasn’t learned any more about THE GAYS, he’s either lazy enough to use the same survey or is realizing that THE GAYS aren’t as alien as he previously conceived them to be. Now the question is if the homosexual community will want to actually give the biased sucker their money to be his gay guinea pigs.