Lawyers have said the Church could not reject clergy as potential bishops on the basis of their homosexual orientation alone.

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The policy enables those with a "homosexual orientation" to serve so long as they don't "tell" or otherwise behave in a way contrary to good order and discipline.

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In those ten years the Church of England has gone through some remarkable changes including the ordination of women priests and a new tolerance of priests with a homosexual orientation.

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Paul Staddon, representing Mr Mendoza, argued that to give a statutory tenancy to the survivor of a heterosexual relationship when the survivor of an equivalent homosexual relationship was limited to the less beneficial assured tenancy, constituted discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation.

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